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Last Tango in Paris (1972): Bernardo Bertolucci's romantic drama starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider

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A treatise on human alienation and requiem for unrequited love A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic...

Don 2 (2011): Indian director Farhan Akhtar's action thriller starring Shahrukh Khan

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SRK's much awaited return as the Asian Mafia Kingpin A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Rev...

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011): American filmmaker Brad Bird's action feast

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Tom Cruise's much anticipated return to the M:I Franchise A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Al i Featured in IMDb Critic...

The Godfather: Part II (1974): Part II of Francis Ford Coppola's Corleone Crime Saga

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Pacino and De Niro shine in the sequel to The Godfather A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic R...

The Godfather (1972): First Installment in Francis Ford Coppola's Corleone Crime Saga

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Marlon Brando shines in Coppola's adaptation of Mario Puzo's Godfather saga A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza ...

Inception (2010): English director Christopher Nolan's Sci-Fi film starring Leonardo DiCaprio

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Buñuel meets Kubrick in Nolan's dream Matrix A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews ...

Once Upon a Time in America (1984): Italian maestro Sergio Leone's epic crime saga about Jewish gangsters

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Robert De Niro and James Woods shine in Leone's swansong and magnum opus A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Feature...

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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.