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Siraj Syed

Siraj Syed is the India Correspondent for FilmFestivals.com and a member of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. He is a Film Festival Correspondent since 1976, Film-critic since 1969 and a Feature-writer since 1970. He is also an acting and dialogue coach. 

 

The Equalizer 2, Review: Unequal combat When you have one man battling four or more mercenaries, the combat is apparently unequal. Turns out that the inequality is in favour of the one man, since he...

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Jonathan Scarfe
Kazy Tauginas
Garrett Golden
Adam Karst
Oliver Wood
Antoine Fuqua
Denzel Washington
Sam Bean
Melissa Leo
Pedro Pascal
Richard Wenk
Michael Sloan
Richard Lindheim
Sakina Jaffrey
Ashton Sanders

Manto, Review: Man to man, rediscovering the Urdu writer, who died a pauper, at 42 Before the film, the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) displayed categorises the language of the film as...

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Nandita Das
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Ismat Chughtai
K. Asif
Ashok Kumar
Himanshu Rai
Shyam
Bombay Talkies
Rishi Kapoor
Paresh Rawal
Nawazuddin Siddiqui

The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Review: Gothic and scary, with a funny-bone Everybody loves a good mystery. Well, almost everybody. If there is magic in it and prodigious children, they love it...

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Colleen Camp
Renée Elise Goldsberry
The Alamo
Sunny Suljic
Vanessa Anne Williams
Kyle MacLachlan
John Bellairs
Eli Roth
Jack Black
Cate Blanchett
Owen Vaccaro
warlock
witch
magic
mystery
thriller
gothic
necromancy
Lorenza Izzo

III Smoking Barrels-Stories from Far East India, Review: Barrelful of empathy Roman three in the title refers to the fact that the film is an anthology of three stories, each exploring a different...

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Dattatraya Ghodke
Kathikuloth Praveen
Phatik Barua
Bijou Thaangjam
Subrat Dutta
Amrita Chattopadhyay
Nalneesh
Rajni Basumatary
Siddharth Mukherjee
Chetana Das
Biplab J. Doley
Boynao Sou
Jhon Narzary
Vikram Gogoi
Sanjib Dey
Tassaduk Ahmed
Dev Gupta
Indraneil Sengupta
Shiny Gogoi
Siddharth Boro
Mandakini Goswami
Disha Thakur

Pakhi, Review: Bird watching strictly not recommended Pakhi, the title, is a variation of the word ‘pankhi’ or ‘panchhi’, meaning bird, in Hindi. It’s a good title, and, in the film, it is the name...

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Sachin Gupta
Anamika Shukla
Sumeet Kant Kaul
Tanmanya Bali
Pihu Dutta
Sikandar Khan
Pallavi Das
Nikkhil Koparde
Shivang Mathur
Shayra Apoorva. Navin Kumar