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November 15, 2024, 7:11 AM IST

Shinie Antony

Outer space? Been there. Inner thoughts? That’s a book

Booker prize for Orbital tells us how familiar the once-grand celestial has become. Space stories are now about human preoccupations, even if astronauts drink recycled pee There are stalkers in space and they are watching…

March 31, 2024, 5:00 AM IST

Rajni George

What a hit film can teach us about saving our hill stations

What impact do movies like ‘Manjummel Boys’ (MB)–the recent Malayalam blockbuster about friendship in the face of life-threatening adversity–have on hill stations like Kodaikanal? According to recent reports, the fallout has been a big uptick…

December 2, 2023, 8:18 AM IST

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Why superheroes stride the earth’s screens: secret history of cinematic juggernaut marvel studios.

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales and Gavin Edwards tells the story of the cinematic franchise that has conquered Hollywood and the world’s imagination for the last 15 years. It…

November 23, 2023, 7:24 PM IST

Sukanya Basu Mallik

‘Dasham Avatar’: A cinematic marvel hindered by an abrupt conclusion

Srijit Mukherji’s “Dasham Avatar” embarks on a daring journey, threading the gruesome tapestry of a serial killer’s reign of terror through the vibrant streets of Kolkata. Despite its compelling cinematography that paints a vivid and…

October 10, 2023, 7:55 PM IST

Women power in cinema: A deeper look at “The Exorcist: Believer” (2023)

The world of cinema has evolved significantly over the years, and with it, the portrayal of women on the big screen. Gone are the days when women were confined to passive, one-dimensional roles in film….

October 9, 2023, 4:29 PM IST

Sahar Zaman

The return of art activism

The art scene in India has always used its power to show a mirror to society or the ruling dispensation, whenever people have been wronged by a powerful establishment. Our visual artists collectively protested against…

October 7, 2023, 8:47 AM IST

Barbie beats Putin: Why cultural censorship doesn’t work anymore

Where there is an audience, there is a way. Western sanctions have denied Russians access to Hollywood’s hits, and Putin’s regime wants Russians to partake of “traditional Russian spiritual and moral values”, whatever that means….

July 29, 2023, 7:24 PM IST

Jagdish Batra

Re-tellings of epics trivialising cultural icons

The recent debate on the movie Aadipurush brings to mind the genre of Indian English  literature based on stories from our revered epics  Ramayana and Mahabharata as also from the Puranas. It should be a…

December 8, 2022, 10:23 AM IST

Saffronart’s Souza sale this December

Barbara Zinkat’s Collection of Francis Newton Souza drawings goes under the hammer this Yuletide season (17th December ) at Saffronart in Mumbai and it has a bevy of beauties in drawings. Headsmen and women and…

October 1, 2022, 2:05 AM IST

Avijit Ghosh

The other side of paradise: Srinagar has got its first multiplex. But history shows, cinema in Kashmir was always more complex

For decades, Srinagar’s cinemas were dead, remembered only in the laments of a lost yesterday. Now, a silver jubilee of years since the first multiplex arrived in Delhi in 1997, Kashmir’s city of beauty and anguish…

May 16, 2022, 2:25 AM IST

Anurag Singh Thakur

Triumph of our storytellers: Union I&B minister underlines the significance of India being the Country of Honour at Cannes

The silent shores of the French Riviera are all set to host the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. As the focus country at the Opening Night of ‘Marché du Film’ this year, India…

May 14, 2022, 2:25 AM IST

Anna MM Vetticad

Very male, with extra gloss: Why southern Indian cinema has acquired a national profile, and is making so much money

Rocky, the protagonist of the new Kannada film K.G.F: Chapter 2, is described by admirers as a storm, a deluge and god. He, however, introduces himself in one scene as the “CEO of India”. At…

August 21, 2020, 11:19 PM IST

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Individual Purpose

By NAINA DHINGRA ET AL Individual purpose can be thought of as an overarching sense of what matters in our lives, and we experience purposefulness when we strive or work toward something personally meaningful or…

August 17, 2020, 2:41 PM IST

Narayani Ganesh

The Year Ruskin Bond Went Away

The pandemic and lockdowns necessitating work-from-home has brought us some benefits along with setbacks. One of the benefits is that we have more time available to us that would have otherwise gotten used up in…

July 9, 2020, 11:31 AM IST

Remembering comic actor Jagdeep, in songs

Comic actor Jagdeep is remembered for his hilarious turns in films such as Sholay, Roti, Ek Baar Kaho and many others. Not many know that he started out as a child actor and also acted…

June 8, 2020, 3:03 PM IST

Retired, But Funny, Sensitive And Sensible, Too

Baapjanma, and AB ani CD – I had the opportunity to view these two Marathi movies with English subtitles on Amazon prime recently, on two different days, thanks to the house arrest brought on by…

May 23, 2020, 9:39 AM IST

Raghu Krishnan

The most beautiful novel on eternal love was by a writer who died in May 2001

When we talk of the death pf love, we remember the 1997 movie “Titanic” and Celine Dion singing “My heart will go on”. However, some 51 years before the release of “Titanic”, R K Narayan’s…

May 4, 2020, 4:00 AM IST

Santosh Desai

Remembering Rishi Kapoor

What a week for cinema. To lose two stalwarts on consecutive days at a time when the world is anyway a dark and hostile place feels like an overengineered tragedy. Two very different kinds of…

May 3, 2020, 9:27 AM IST

Dhananjay Singh

The exceptional in art that became the inevitable in Irrfan Khan

Why is the departure of Irrfan Khan impossible to accept for his fans all around the world, including myself? Everyone knew he had fought cancer with as much resilience as for his very special place…

May 3, 2020, 1:00 AM IST

Vinita Dawra Nangia

Bollywood staggers under a one-two punch

Rishi Kapoor and Irrfan Khan leave behind an indelible imprint on cinema As the pandemic’s cortege of fear and trauma continues, the low point for lovers of Indian cinema came this week when two greats…

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Movie Review: Toofan

• Publish Date: Jul 19 2021 1:56PM
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 Toofaan Story: The life of Aziz Ali aka Ajju bhai (Farhan Akhtar), a street ruffian, debt collector and henchman of a criminal overlord changes overnight after he falls in love with a righteous doctor Ananya (Mrunal Thakur). She asks him to make a choice. Does he see himself as Ajju wasooli bhai or Aziz Ali, a respected boxer?

Toofaan Review: A good hearted Parsi gym owner in the neighbourhood, introduces the legendary Muhammad Ali’s videos to Aziz. ‘Boxing Aur bhaigiri mein yahi farak hai. Boxing is a sport that needs technique, discipline and patience, not just strength,’ he clarifies. Recognising his potential and the expert training he deserves, Aziz is recommended to a widely respected boxing coach Nana Prabhu (Paresh Rawal). The Dadar veteran is wary of a Muslim guy from Dongri with notorious background but agrees to take him under his wing. He even bestows him with the title ‘Toofaan’ (unstoppable storm) but this near perfect coach-protege relationship takes an ugly turn when things get personal.

Forbidden love, casual bigotry, communal harmony, making of a boxer and redemption of a disgraced athlete… Toofaan tries to tread several paths at once. In doing so, the fictional tale loosely feels like a mishmash of several films you may have seen before… Ghulam, Sultan, Mukkabaaz. Given the fact that Toofaan sees Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra reuniting with his solid Bhaag Milkha Bhaag team — Farhan Akhtar and Shankar Ehsaan-Loy, one expects nothing less than fireworks. What you get is a run of the mill story told in an over-simplistic way. A few empty punches, a few solid blows, lot of evading the opponent and eventually tiring out the vibe, Toofaan is an odd mix of succumbing to and destroying the stereotypes. Love lies at the heart of the story but boxing drives the narrative. The juggling doesn’t seem organic and feels a lot like one interrupting the other.

You always have a choice, believes Ananya. To uproot yourself from the world you were born into and upgrade, isn’t easy. The film’s protagonist does it without batting an eye and you hope to follow his journey, inner conflict and boxing skill. The focus however, shifts to a conventional interfaith love story, societal scrutiny, parental outrage and boxing as an extended highlight.

The film’s strongest portions revolve around its modest and realistic setting, the coach-protégé relationship and confrontation on communal discourse. Strangely these scenes are cut short and emotions curbed in order to keep the story moving. The story gives an impression that it wishes to delve into issues like religious tolerance, empathy and prejudice but settles on merely scratching the surface.

After Bandra boy Ranveer Singh rapped his way into your heart through the gullies of Dharavi in Gully Boy, you have Farhan Akhtar doing some Phoda phodi in Dongri in Toofaan. While Ranveer still has a mainstream appeal, Farhan’s thinking urban persona can be overwhelming. The actor-writer-director takes his time but manages to mould himself into a character that isn’t remotely close to his sensibility. As far as his physical transformation is concerned, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag has already proved his sincerity and determination to look the part. It’s everything or nothing for Farhan and he sticks to the plan this time around as well. His face off with renowned Indian boxers like Neeraj Goyat, Gaganpreet Sharma is captivating.

Paresh Rawal gives the film its finest moments by merely shooting a glance at his highly misunderstood boxer. He, along with Dr Mohan Agashe show you how good actors can elevate a standard script. Mrunal Thakur essays her role in an undramatic, earnest manner. What also stands out is characters not wallowing in self pity when in crisis or pretending to be something they are not. Aziz unabashedly admits, “Boxing mein jo foda fodi hai, Woh Kareeb hai apne.”

Overall, Toofaan may not be the cyclone you may have expected it to be but it definitely has its thundering moments.

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Every year, as I start the herculean (and absurd!) task of winnowing a year’s worth of movies into a top 10, I also sift through a lot of grim media coverage about the terrible, horrible, possibly salvageable state of the entertainment industry. In the movie world, things are always looking up (maybe) unless they’re catastrophically down, a cycle of boom and bust that has gripped the industry for much of its history and always convinces someone, somewhere, that the movies are dead. It’s a familiar charge with a changing cast of murder suspects: synchronized sound, television, cable, streaming and, of course, corporate idiocy.

Despite their continued decline, the big American-based studios still dominate the mainstream media coverage and what little attention an increasingly fragmented, distracted audience has remaining. To that end, nearly every week another megadollar production comes hurtling toward us, gobbles up all the media interest, rakes in fortunes or becomes just another tax write-down or write-off. Some of these movies are OK, others are bilge; a scant few are memorable. Yet as my hardworking colleagues and I eagerly share in our reviews for The New York Times, the movie world is much vaster than what these companies offer, and good, great and miraculous work often flies under the radar. Here’s a sampling of the bounty.

1. ‘ All We Imagine as Light ’ (Payal Kapadia)

This delicate, achingly wistful story about empathy is an example of the same, and centers on two female nurses and a cook, friends who work at the same hospital in Mumbai. Over the course of the movie, Kapadia shifts between these caregivers who together and separately experience ordinary pleasures, face painful difficulties and find comfort, support and companionship in one another. Every so often, Kapadia, who has also made documentaries, incorporates images of everyday people milling through the city, images that connect her characters to a sea of humanity and, by extension, to those of us watching. ( In theaters )

2. ‘ Ernie Gehr: Mechanical Magic ’

Some of the most transporting movies that I watched this year were in a retrospective of Gehr’s work in March at the Museum of Modern Art. Generally short and now shot in digital, these moving images have no scripted dialogue and nothing resembling a plot. Liberated from the stranglehold of story, Gehr’s movies instead present and re-present outwardly ordinary places, objects and moving bodies — white clouds drifting across a stretch of blue city sky, people walking in front of a windowed storefront — that Gehr turns into heady studies of energy, chance, light, surface and space. Your perception of the world change when filmmakers like Gehr show it to you through their liberated lenses and frames. These are movies that expand and, at times, gloriously blow your mind.

3. ‘ A Real Pain ’ (Jesse Eisenberg)

There is a lot to love about this tender, melancholic comic-drama about the enduring generational aftershocks of the Holocaust. Written and directed by Eisenberg, it stars him and Kieran Culkin as American cousins who were once close and now, following the death of their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, find themselves fumbling toward each other during a so-called heritage tour in Poland. Their trip is deeply touching, at times laugh-out-loud funny and altogether unexpected, partly because Eisenberg understands that life isn’t a tidy life lesson and that some things remain essentially unknowable, including other people. ( In theaters )

4. ‘ Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World ’ (Radu Jude)

An exhilarating, vulgarly funny, sometimes exasperating jolt, Jude’s latest tracks Angela — a charismatic Ilinca Manolache — as she motors through Bucharest. For much of the movie, she is behind the wheel of her jalopy, a home away from home, or interviewing badly injured people as potential cautionary tales for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational corporation. As she racks up miles, traversing a world where capitalism and the ghosts of communism converge, the movie touches on Romania’s past and present, the East and the West, high culture and exceedingly low. It’s a wild ride! ( Stream it on Mubi )

5. ‘ Dahomey ’ (Mati Diop)

As formally inventive as it is politically and philosophically rich, this documentary opens in Paris on some replicas of the Eiffel Tower laid out on a vendor’s sidewalk display. They’re the kind of familiar souvenirs that African street vendors sell not far from the city’s imposing Quai Branly Museum, which is where workers are packing up crates and Diop’s movie begins taking shape. Inside those crates are 26 treasures that were looted by French troops in 1892 and that France returned to Benin in 2019, an event that Diop turns — with the help of some students and one of those treasures, a statue that speaks in voice-over — into a precise, lucid exploration of cultural and artistic patrimony in the wake of colonialism. ( In theaters )

6. ‘ Pictures of Ghosts ’ (Kleber Mendonça Filho)

Much of this poignant, formally lively and intellectually bracing documentary from Mendonça Filho, a Brazilian film critic turned filmmaker, takes place in and around the apartment he lived in as a kid in the coastal city of Recife. Art-house regulars might recognize this flat from his earlier films, including “Aquarius” (2016), in which Sônia Braga plays a woman fighting eviction. Here, Mendonça Filho uses the apartment as an axis point for an inquiry that radiates out in different directions — into his past and his mother’s, onto old movie sets and through abandoned cinemas — yet always returns home. (Stream it on the Criterion Channel )

7. ‘ Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga ’ (George Miller)

That’s entertainment, baby — and pure cinema. (Stream it on Max )

8. ‘ Megalopolis ’ (Francis Ford Coppola)

By the time that Coppola’s long-gestating epic — an art film that he had talked about making for decades — opened, it was predictably doomed. The movie focuses on a utopian architect (Adam Driver) with a world-changing plan that bursts with ideas and beauty, giving the story a poignant self-referential undercurrent. The movie was never going to be for everyone; art rarely is. Even so, it was disheartening how eagerly some media types, including critics, dismissed it. After its release, the industry journalist Richard Rushfield shot back at the glibber criticisms, writing in the Substack publication The Ankler, that “‘Megalopolis’ exists because one of the greatest directors in film history, at the end of a long career, decided to spend his own money on a film he wanted to make.” As Rushfield put it, “Truly, if you have a problem with that, you need to consider maybe you just don’t like film.” Co-sign. (Available for rent on most major platforms )

9. ‘ Green Border ’ (Agnieszka Holland)

The rage that boils through Holland’s drama about the European migrant crisis is startling and fully earned. Largely set along the border between Poland and Belarus, it toggles among an assortment of characters, including a Syrian family struggling to enter the European Union, activists providing aid to migrants and guards tasked with violently upholding national interests. A fiction drawn from fact, the movie builds to a shattering coda that lays bare the prejudices that countries try to hide in the name of patriotism. ( Stream it on Kino Film )

10. ‘ Here ’ (Bas Devos)

Partway through this quiet, revelatory Belgian movie, its two main characters — a male construction worker and a female botanist — happen across each other in a park. There, under a canopy of green vegetation, she invites him to look at some of the plants that she’s studying and he settles alongside her. Moss, she explains, was here before we humans and will probably be here after we’re gone. Such is the way of life in a movie about immanence and transcendence, and about being alive to a world in which we are all, finally, passers-by. “You blink,” as another character says, “and everything’s gone.” ( Stream it on the Criterion Channel )

Also recommended: “ Anora ,” “ Between the Temples ,” “ Bird ,” “The Brutalist,” “ La Chimera ,” “ Challengers ,” “ Civil War ,” “ Eno ,” “ Evil Does Not Exist ,” “ Flow, ” “ The Goldman Case ,” “ Io Capitano ,” “Hard Truths,” “ His Three Daughters ,” “ Intercepted ,” “ Juror #2 ,” “ Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara ,” “ Last Summer ,” “ Ernest Cole: Lost and Found ,” “Nickel Boys,” “ Nocturnes ,” “ The Promised Land, ” “The Room Next Door,” “ The Settlers ,” “ Soundtrack to a Coup d’État ,” “ Sugarcane ,” “ Tótem ,” “ Will & Harper ,” “ Youth (Hard Times) ” and “ Youth (Homecoming) .” I would have put Leos Carax’s “ It’s Not Me ” on my top 10, but in full disclosure, his mother is a dear friend. So, all I’ll say is psst , it opens soon in New York and Los Angeles, and will stream on the Criterion Channel.

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The Algorithm Breakers

There are years when it’s obvious which movies will top everyone’s year-end lists, and years when the gems are scattered — the picks more broad and idiosyncratic. This year is the unpredictable kind. I could make a list of great 2024 films that’s five times as long as this one, but those that bubbled to the top for me had something in common: They’re what I call algorithm breakers. They elude easy categorization, keeping us off balance.

Looking at my list, I realized most of my favorites this year came from artists who worked across disciplines — playwrights directing movies, documentarians taking on fiction — or who zig when you’re expecting a zag, counting on the audience to lean in and pay attention. While giant corporations were spending billions to better predict your taste, 2024’s best movies ask you to keep the algorithm-keepers on their toes.

1. ‘Nickel Boys’ (RaMell Ross)

Ross cut his teeth in documentary filmmaking — his formally daring “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” was nominated for an Oscar in 2019 — but with “Nickel Boys,” he turns to fiction. Sort of. His adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel is boldly radical, transforming the text into a mostly first-person film that captures the spirit of the source material — a meditation on how trauma shapes a person’s sense of self — by harnessing the visual and aural tools that cinema provides. He grafts archival nonfiction footage onto the movie and frequently challenges the ways we’ve been trained to think a story like this should be told, with results that are both straightforward and extraordinary. I’m amazed this movie exists. I’m so glad it does. (Opens in theaters on Dec. 13)

2. ‘ Eno ’ (Gary Hustwit)

When I say that every time I saw this documentary about the groundbreaking artist Brian Eno it was different, I’m not speaking metaphorically. It was literally different, because there are 52 quintillion possible versions of the movie, which Hustwit and his collaborators designed as a work of ever-evolving art, running on an algorithm to select and generate a new version each time it’s shown. That’s impressive enough, but what’s more amazing is that every version I saw was a terrific reflection on some aspect of creativity: art and identity, the messiness of creation. I could, quite literally, watch it a billion times more.

3. ‘ Anora ’ (Sean Baker)

Baker’s propulsive, sure-handed movie, about a Brooklyn sex worker who marries the chaotic son of a Russian mogul, pays homage to several Hollywood genres — but it’s something all its own. The film mixes romp and romance and tragedy, and features a blazing star-making turn by Mikey Madison as the heroine. But the real crux of the tale is in what goes unsaid, what happens just behind Madison’s eyes. The theme of all of Baker’s films is the make-believe reality of the American dream; the variation “Anora” plays has to do with fairy tales, fantasies and finally seeing the world straight on. (In theaters)

4. ‘ Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat ’ (Johan Grimonprez)

Essayistic in form, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” is a furious, brilliant documentary about, well, everything, really. At its center are the events leading up to the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, said to have been orchestrated by the C.I.A. mere months after his election in May 1960. Grimonprez comes at it from every direction, exploring the ways truth can be exposed and ignored and shoved underground, all set to the driving rhythm of the Black jazz musicians who both protested and were, at times, unwittingly used by covert American government operations. It’s both a multimedia dissertation and a dizzying accomplishment. (In theaters)

5. ‘ Evil Does Not Exist ’ (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

I first saw this drama during its festival run, well over a year ago, and yet I think of it all the time. It’s Hamaguchi’s follow-up to “Drive My Car,” and it’s similarly intent on plumbing the meaning of human connection in an individualistic world. In the film, a rural community is concerned about a company that wishes to build a “glamping” site nearby, which will have devastating environmental consequences. What we do upstream, the movie says both literally and metaphorically, affects those who live downstream — a fact we must face, or risk becoming inhuman. (Stream it on the Criterion Channel )

6. ‘ Janet Planet ’ (Annie Baker)

Baker’s first film, set in western Massachusetts, is about being a misfit kid during the summertime, lonely and preoccupied by one’s mother. The titular Janet, played by Julianne Nicholson, is that mother, and she is going through a series of small crises of her own, mostly linked to lousy men and burgeoning self-realization. “Janet Planet” is small, and funny, and also revelatory in its own gentle way, with an attention to period detail — it’s set in the 1990s — that makes it clear how much Baker, an acclaimed playwright, loves her characters and their world. (Available for rent on most major platforms )

7. ‘ Green Border ’ (Agnieszka Holland)

Holland got into hot water in her native Poland for this drama about refugees from Syria and Afghanistan trying to cross the border from Belarus into Poland, and thus into the European Union. The film centers on the families and individuals caught in limbo while trying to travel through an “exclusion zone” around the border, as well as the activist volunteers trying to help them. It is heart-pounding and gut-wrenching, upending any easy stories we tell ourselves about borders in order to turn a blind eye. ( Stream it on Kino Film )

8. ‘ Good One ’ (India Donaldson)

This coming-of-age drama’s revelation is its star, Lily Collias, who plays a teenager on a camping trip with her father and his best friend. On the surface very little happens, but the expressions rippling across Collias’s face tell us everything we need to know about the revelations she’s having while listening to the men talk. It’s also a debut feature for Donaldson, whose ear for dialogue and eye for detail open a whole world out on that mountain trail. (In theaters)

9. ‘ The Remarkable Life of Ibelin ’ (Benjamin Ree)

I struggle to explain “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin” to people. On the one hand, it’s a documentary about a Norwegian gamer named Mats Steen who died of a rare disease. On the other, it’s a startling exploration of how we affect one another’s lives, even when we don’t know it. To tell the tale, Ree uses interviews, diaries, transcripts, blog posts and a hefty helping of animated recreations of Steen’s life inside the video game World of Warcraft , which makes the film’s simplicity all the more remarkable. It’s a story about what is real in an unreal age, and the places we allow ourselves to be human. (Stream it on Netflix )

10. ‘ Union ’ (Brett Story and Stephen Maing)

It is hard to capture, on film, the often exhausting work of organizing workplace labor, mostly because it takes years to form a union, and the fight is often a slog. But “Union” does it. Story and Maing spent years with Amazon workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island as they tried to form the first union at the company. The story they tell has moments of triumph and exhilaration, but also extreme frustration, heated disputes, disappointment. (It’s worth noting that despite a lauded festival run, “Union” couldn’t secure a major distribution deal, eventually opting to self-distribute.) (Stream it on Gathr )

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Manohla Dargis is the chief film critic for The Times. More about Manohla Dargis

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Dune 2 Review: Early Reactions Are In And Fans Are Calling It Greatest Movie Of All Time

Dune 2 reviews have flooded the internet. here's what people who have the denis villeneuve directorial have to say about the movie starring timothée chalamet, zendaya, rebecca ferguson, and josh brolin among others..

One of the highly anticipated movies of the year Dune Part 2 has hit the screens in India today. While the film has been released a day in advance in IMAX, the Denis Villeneuve directorial will hit other screens tomorrow, on March 1. Meanwhile, Dune 2 reviews have flooded the internet already as fans have flocked to the theatres to watch the Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, and Josh Brolin starrer movie. Here's what the fans on X (formerly called Twitter) have to say!

Dune Part 2 Review

"#DunePart2 Review: I stopped seeing & started experiencing the Movie BGM gave me Goosebumps, I was literally having Eye Therapy by its Stunning Visuals Family Politics is a slow burn, 2 hours 45 minutes does feel. I was expecting Baahubali kind of EPIC Ending but 1000% Must Watch in IMAX"

"Must-watch movie, great action scenes, visually stunning and impressive acting performances. Please watch in IMAX," wrote another user.

Another person took to X to share Dune 2 review and wrote, "#Dune2 is fantastic, an improvement amongst the first in every way, A brilliant story culminating in one of the greatest 3rd acts I have ever seen in a sci-fi movie."

Ok I've had a couple days to sit on it, but this right here... the greatest scene I've ever witness in film. I could watch it for days. pic.twitter.com/tgdKaMZfz5 — Matt_CDune (@Matt_CDune) February 28, 2024

" Taking a bit of time to write up by review for #DunePart2 because I have a lot of thoughts so all I can say for now is that it’s incredible," said another user.

Another comment read, " Whoa! Dude, that was EPIC! The visuals were insane. Did you also feel like you were actually in Arrakis?"

"I'm blessed! I just watched Dune Part 2 and I have to say it is the greatest movie of all time! Everything is perfect and I have no words to describe such perfection. Thank you Frank Herbert. Thank Denis Villeneuve. Thank you to everyone involved. May thy knife chip and shatter," another user wrote.

This fan was bowled over by the film. In his Dune Part 2 review on X, he wrote, "I know I sound like Club Chalamet rn but there are seriously not nearly enough headlines about Timothée Chalamet’s performance in Dune Part Two for my liking. seen articles of praise for Bautista and Butler but barely anything about Chalamet yet? he had my jaw on the floor like holy shit that performance is gonna be a career highlight even in twenty years. to go from Wonka to this back-to-back wow the range. I am not very familiar with Dune but had an idea of where it was heading… yet i was absolutely not prepared for how hard this went. just dumbfounding stuff. so fucking good. on my hands and knees for Denis’ Lisan al Gaib. the transformation that happens before our very eyes was crazy. so much power. incomprehensible influence. absolute authority. no more doubt, no more second guessing. Chalamet WILL make you believe he really is a god amongst mere mortal men. follow him or perish. that is the only choice. believe. or die."

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