Siddhant Adlakha
Siddhant Adlakha is a film critic and entertainment journalist originally from Mumbai. He currently resides in New York, and is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle.
Latest From Siddhant Adlakha
'The Girl with the Needle' review: Denmark's Oscar entry is a haunting true crime period piece
Rigorous drama meets real history through narrative sleight of hand.
'September 5' review: a blinkered, noncommittal thriller about an Olympic hostage crisis
Who knew a film about news coverage of Israel and Palestine could be so tepid?
'Nickel Boys' review: A masterful work of friendship, violence, and memory
One of Hollywood's finest literary adaptations is the result of elliptical editing and a first-person POV.
'Maria' review: Angelina Jolie sets an opera biopic ablaze
A towering, career-defining performance from a woman who knows the spotlight all too well.
'Oh, Canada' review: Paul Schrader's latest is his most personal work
Richard Gere delivers a towering performance as a documentarian with one foot in the grave.
'The Order' review: Jude Law goes freak mode while chasing neo-Nazis
The true story of a white supremacist cult allows "Assassin's Creed" director Justin Kurzel to fine-tune his approach.
'Hard Truths' review: Mike Leigh explores deep-seated anguish through darkly funny realism
Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a knockout performance as a woman on the verge of oblivion.
'The Piano Lesson' review: A stage adaptation makes powerful use of cinematic form
Malcolm Washington goes beyond the edges of August Wilson's Pittsburgh drama.
'The Taste of Things' review: The year's most sensuous romance
Food and passion collide in a luminous film about love.
'Emilia Pérez' review: An incendiary transgender cartel musical
Jacques Audiard's gaudy, star-studded Cannes winner is stirring and surprisingly philosophical.
'Bird' review: Andrea Arnold's coming-of-age fable comes up slightly short
A work of British realism sprinkled with the magic of Franz Rogowski.
'Juror #2' review: Clint Eastwood's masterful Hollywood throwback
Part homage, part inquiry, and entirely enthralling.
'Trap' review: A wildly entertaining father-daughter thriller
M. Night Shyamalan's latest is a ludicrous romp filled with surprising sentimentality.
'A Nice Indian Boy' review: East-meets-West with a twist in an instant rom-com classic
One of the year's funniest, most rousing festival discoveries.
'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl' review: A fierce, acerbic Zambian comedy-drama about community
Set entirely during a multi-day funeral, Rungano Nyoni’s sophomore effort is a rigorous work of African feminism.
'April' review: A visceral Georgian abortion drama
Déa Kulumbegashvili's sophomore feature, about a brave obstetrician, is riveting and disturbing.
'It's What's Inside' review: Netflix’s latest thriller can't be missed
Brilliantly crafted by writer/director Greg Jardin and a deviously good time.
'Pavements' review: A slanted, enchanting documentary-biopic-prank
Alex Ross Perry takes the concert film and the music biopic to strange and hilarious heights.
'Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape' review: A loving homage to an internet oddity
A YouTube compilation that creates a space for outsider art.
'The Brutalist' review: A modern American masterpiece
Brady Corbet crafts a towering achievement about immigrants, architecture, and Jewish identity.
'Chainsaws Were Singing' review: This '70s horror throwback is a time capsule… of the early 2010s?
A scattered, tongue-in-cheek musical that pays homage to older films and simpler times.
'The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee' review: A movie giant narrates his bio-doc from beyond the grave
The legacy of the “Lord of the Rings” actor is told through an oddly mechanical film.
'A Different Man' review: Sebastian Stan leads a stunning, self-reflexive drama on representation
Aaron Schimberg's follow-up to "Chained for Life" delves even deeper into on-screen facial difference.
'The Substance' review: Demi Moore dazzles in a derivative midnight snooze
At last, Cannes embraces body-horror schlock, but the film is more metaphorical than meaningful.
'Eden' review: Ron Howard's island drama is numbingly dull, and ugly as sin
Despite great performances from Jude Law and Ana de Armas, the survival thriller offers few actual thrills.