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Unforgiven (1992): Clint Eastwood's Tribute to Leone, Siegel and the Old West

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews Unforgiven (1992 ) - By Clint Eastwood ...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966): Sergio Leone's Epic Tale of Greed and Betrayal

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews The Good the Bad, and the Ugly (196...

The Last Samurai (2003): The Western Perspective on the Japanese Lexicon of Pride & Honor

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews The Last Samurai (2003) - By Edward Zwick ...

Raavan (2010): Mani Ratnam's Crown Jewel and a Landmark in Indian Cinema

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews Raavan (2010) - By Mani Ratnam Our ...

There Will Be Blood (2007): Paul Thomas Anderson's Epic Saga of Greed, Betrayal and Obsession

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews There Will Be Blood (2007 ) - By Paul Thom...

Quantum of Solace (2008): The Highly Anticipated Sequel to Casino Royale

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews Quantum of Solace (2008) - By Mark Foster ...

Hugo (2011): American filmmaker Martin Scorsese's tribute to the unsung heroes of cinema

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews Hugo (2011) - By Martin Scorsese Our Rat...

The Prestige (2006): British filmmaker Christopher Nolan's bewitching tale of passion and obsession

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews The Prestige (2006) - By Christopher Nolan ...

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011): Turkish Film-Maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Police Procedural Highlighting Complexities of the Human Psyche

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb critic Reviews Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) - By Nur...

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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.