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MUHAMMED NOSHAD thinks the gracious presence of Celine Dion and her songs don’t save Love Again from banality and predictability. Getting to see Celine Dion acting a role, albeit as herself, is a surprising pleasure, especially when she is through hard physical ailments and her concert tours stay cancelled indefinitely. Love Again brings the charm of the pop queen as
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The Whale has stereotypical scenes of fat bodies, though its makers claim to establish the humanity of obese souls. However, the lead actor Brendan Fraser does a remarkable job, opines MUHAMMED NOUSHAD. “Do you ever get the feeling that people are incapable of not caring?” asks a dying Charlie, an excessively obese man, in The Whale, to his only friend
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Nomadland raises critical concerns about the economy, lifestyle and perceptions of happiness, writes MUHAMMED NOUSHAD. In Nomadland, the analogy of a motor home is that of a lifeboat. The economy is Titanic, unstoppably sinking thanks to the wreckage. The sinking could be slow, too slow to notice or acknowledge, but it’s inevitable. When Bob Wells, the charismatic vandweller and minimalist who plays himself in
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Collateral Beauty leaves the plot’s philosophical potential poorly developed, writes MUHAMMED NOUSHAD. When you are losing your six year old daughter inside an intensive care unit and you are aware of the unforgivable fact that her life-supporting machinery is removed one by one, and the death is soon to be pronounced, what if you are told by a stranger, “Just make
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