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Blue is the Warmest Color (2013): Tunisian-French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche's Palme d’Or winning film

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A portrayal of homosexuality like never before A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Shiladitya Biswas Featured in IMDb Criti...

Léon: The Professional (1994) - Luc Besson's poignant tale of a hitman and his young protégée

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Solid performances from Oldman, Reno and Portman elevate the film A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Priyanka G Featur...

The Great Beauty (2013): Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino's sumptuous cinematic feast starring Toni Servillo

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A "La Dolce Vita" for the 21st century A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Martin Bradley Featured in IMDb Critic Rev...

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) - The second installment in the Hunger Games film quadrilogy

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Jennifer Lawrence packs a punch in this star-studded extravaganza A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in ...

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Murtaza Ali Khan is an independent film critic / journalist based out of New Delhi, India. He has been writing on cinema for over seven years. He runs the award-winning entertainment blog A Potpourri of Vestiges. He is also the Films Editor at the New York City-based publication Cafe Dissensus and regularly contributes to The Hindu, The Sunday Guardian, DailyO, and National Herald. He was previously a columnist at Huff Post. He has also contributed to online publications like Newslaundry, The Quint, Dear Cinema, Desimartini and Jamuura Blog. He is also on the guest panel for live discussions on the television news channel NewsX.

His education spans science, technology, mass communication, and management. But cinema remains his first love. His all-time favorite movie-makers are Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Luis Bunuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Satyajit Ray, Fritz Lang, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. He can be reached at murtaza@apotpourriofvestiges.com / murtaza.jmi@gmail.com. He tweets @apotofvestiges.