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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Junoon (1978): Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal's cinematic epic featuring a tour de force from Shashi Kapoor

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Ruskin Bond's treatise on love, obsession, war and death A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Cr...
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The Best Offer (2013): Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore's haunting tale of love

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A modern masterpiece with thrills of a classic Hitchcock  A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Thomas Samuel Featured in  I...
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The Last Tycoon (1976): Elia Kazan's swan song featuring a mesmerizing performance from Robert De Niro

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A highly underrated masterwork of cinematic art A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  Reviews...
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Best Films of Francis Ford Coppola

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W henever one speaks of the 20th century American cinema, a name that inevitably comes to mind is that of Francis Ford Coppola.  With ...
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The Usual Suspects (1995): Bryan Singer's nerve-jangling crime thriller with an unforgettable performance from Kevin Spacey

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The film that made Kevin Spacey a superstar A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Priyanka G Featured in  IMDb Critic  Review...
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Barefoot to Goa (2013): Praveen Morchhale's indie film about moribund human bonds and decaying moral values

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A social commentary on the great rural-urban divide in India   A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb C...
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013): Second Installment in J. J. Abrams Star Trek Reboot

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Boldly goes where no Trekkie movie has gone before A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Jairam Mohan Featured in  IMDb Critic...
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Silver Linings Playbook (2012): David O. Russell's feel-good film featuring an Oscar-winning performance from Jennifer Lawrence

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More than just any other rom-com A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Jairam Mohan Featured in  IMDb Critic  Reviews S...
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The Vicious Kind (2008): Lee Toland Krieger's small-time indie heightened by a strong script and cast

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By  Dan O'Neill Featured in  IMDb Critic  Reviews The Vicious Kind (2008)   -  By L...
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School 2013 (2012) (TV Series): An emotional, coming-of-age journey of teenagers enriched with Korean cuteness and sensitivities

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Post By  Pratikshya Mishra S chool 2013 or Let’s go to school is essentially about life at schoo...
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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 10 years. He runs the award-winning entertainment blog A Potpourri of Vestiges. He regularly contributes to The Hindu and The Sunday Guardian. He was previously a columnist at Huff Post. He has also contributed to publications like DailyO, Newslaundry, The Quint, Dear Cinema, Desimartini and Jamuura Blog. He regularly appears as a guest panelist on the various television channels and is also associated with radio.

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 at @MurtazaCritic.

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