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Recent reviews

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  Darlings 2022

  ★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Well, it’s a debut…

  Name one good Indian Netflix Original. I bet you can’t. I hope my mom cancels her subscription.

  What really stands out here is the terrible editing. There is no reason for this stupid and excruciating film to be nearly two and a half hours long.

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  Taxi Driver 1976

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Feb 2025

  we leven in een samenleving

Popular reviews

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  Badhaai Do 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2022

  This big family of mine has always given me more love than I deserve, and yet I’ve always felt alone. I could never share my truth with anyone.

  An instant classic. I’m at loss for words. It’s been a long time since a Hindi film got me this carried away. Badhaai Do deserves all the praise. Never before has LGBT in Indian culture been completely explored in commercial Hindi cinema with such sensitivity, but above all: authenticity.

  In those two…

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  Satyaprem Ki Katha 2023

  ★★★ Watched 29 Jun 2023

  Compared to the abhorrent screenplays that receive the green light from major Indian studios, it was rare to witness one with depth, in which heavy themes – considered taboo in Indian society – are handled with sensitivity. I’ll still go ahead and assume there were zero women on the writing team, because it barely navigates those themes without being so heavily reliant on the male saviour trope – a major disappointment. If the makers wanted the film to be memorable,…