In 2021, ending a year-and-a-half of pandemic-induced delays and disruptions, Hollywood delivered a stream of tentpoles of wildly varying mettle. Bollywood, too, foisted many a trashy star-driven vehicle upon us, while Mumbai’s off-mainstream directors (Neeraj Ghaywan, Dibakar Banerjee, Shoojit Sircar) did their best to brighten things up.
Will 2022 be any different? Probably not. But like the year gone by, which saw a full complement of remakes, reboots and sequels amid mounting multiverse mayhem, while it also yielded The Power of the Dog, Dune and The French Dispatch, the next 12 months will see many world cinema heavyweights unveiling exciting new

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