Chaitanya Sharma
Senior Film & TV Critic
Hailing from India and trying to detach himself from the rat race, Chaitanya with his bubbling zeal for filmmaking is an avid cinephile with an equal adoration for physics, television, music and novels. When he’s not busy, you can find him cooking pasta while listening to podcasts. Chaitanya writes about television, movies and music at Feature First.
In comparison to last year's great display of cinema, this year is turning out to be quite dry. Lets go back in time and rank the underrated films of 2023.
Pachinko S2 is a melodrama that comes crashing into your senses, taking hold of your emotions like a magician hypnotising your mind.
Stuck inside a doom bus, a bunch of competent people, working under a "visionary" director, try to shoot a coherent superhero film only for panic, anxiety and chaos to run amok.
At its core, His Three Daughters concerns itself with the topic of regret & the talkative nature of the movie works very well in its favour.
The Boys are back for the fourth season, with a nimbler and not-so-subtle political satire, yet a stronger story and well realised characters.
In this musically loaded year, we decided to keep track of albums that shouldn't be slept on at any cost, here are some of them.
The duality of the narrator, torn between discretion and compassion towards his ideology drives the narrative of The Sympathizer.
Sugar breaks all conventional styles of filmmaking and paves the way for something wildly original and fresh. Find out why Sugar is one of the best shows of the year inside.
A series that goes beyond the spectacle and becomes an epic in true sense. FX's Shōgun is not a show to miss out on.
Netflix's Ripley provides a compelling tale of a nihilistic conman with an exquisite velvety black-and-white cinematography.