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- Interview: Raj & DK, Vijay Sethupathi, Shahid Kapoor, Raashi Khanna (Farzi)
- Readers Write In #547: Maid of the Mist
- Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat’ is a love story that turns the standard love story on its head
- Temporary publish for ….. ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 6: Ask the Critic
- Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan’s well-intentioned ‘Thalaikoothal’ is a drama that stays at an arm’s size
- Shan’s ‘Bommai Nayagi’ offers Yogi Babu the house to be dramatic, however the story-handling is just too simplistic
- Farewell, Vani Jairam
- Readers Write In #546: Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam – A Meditation on Existence
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 5: Dear STR
- Readers Write In #545: A Woody Allen fan rant
- Readers Write In #544: எனக்கு தெரிந்த ரங்கன்
- Farewell, Okay Viswanath
- Siddharth Anand’s ‘Pathaan’ is a tremendous mix of Hollywood-style motion and desi-style masala
- Interview: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari (Faadu)
- Twenty years, and counting…
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 4: Hero vs. Heroine in Tamil cinema
- Interview: Syam Pushkaran / Vineeth Sreenivasan (Thankam)
- Readers Write In #543: Children of Men
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 3: Thoughts on ‘Mayakkam Enna’ (Movie of the Month)
- Interview: Rakul Preet Singh (Chhatriwali)
- Readers Write In #542: Annathe, Varisu, and oversimplified relationships
- Interview: Manju Warrier (Ayisha, Thunivu)
- Interview: ‘Trial by Fire’ forged (Rajshri Deshpande, Abhay Deol) and director Prashant Nair
- Readers Write In #541: Vaalvi succeeds the place Kuttey fails
- Readers Write In #540: 20 Years of Okkadu: The making of Mahesh Babu
- Book Excerpt: Escape for Love
- Anupam Patnaik’s ‘Pratikshya’ (Odia) is an affecting household drama about father-son friction and rather a lot extra
- Exploring the Mindscape #1: With PC Sreeram
- Interview: Ramya Subramanian
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 2: On the Pongal movies and their stars
- Readers Write In #539: ‘Thunivu’ film evaluate: Screenwriting issues, star energy options
- H Vinoth’s ‘Thunivu’ has a superb premise for a heist film however the writing doesn’t match up
- Vamshi Paidipally’s ‘Varisu’ is outdated wine in an older bottle, relying solely on Vijay’s “mass moments”
- Interview: Rashmika Mandanna (Varisu)
- Interview: Vamshi Paidipally (Varisu)
- Interview: H Vinoth (Thunivu)
- Readers Write In #538: Dreams from the Cityscape
- Interview: Yami Gautam
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 1: On AR Rahman, on his birthday
- Readers Write In #537: My journey with ‘Ponniyin Selvan’, from watcher to reader to author
- Interview: Rima Das
- From the Web (FTW) #1: Rahul Gandhi and Kamal Haasan in dialog
- About the films – 1969 / 2022
- Readers Write In #536: My favorite Hindi movies of 2022
- Happy 2023, everybody!
- Mega Critics Roundtable 2022, by Nona Prince
- Interview: Hrithik Roshan
- Readers Write In #535: Love at present…Wait, what love?
- Readers Write In #534: Balls of Steel
- The Galatta Plus Tamil Cinema Round Table 2022