Lust Stories 2

The film doesn't believe in showing us anything more than the doors closing, and not even two flowers nodding.

This film wants a pat on its back for being willing to have this conversation. You can feel it shimmying its shoulders towards you for that thump...

By addressing these topics, the anthology aims to foster conversations about sexuality and gender, highlighting the importance of recognising and honouring women's desires. Watchable for its efforts and sincere performances.

Kajol with her brilliant expressions of her eyes and minimal dialogues makes us understand the story of lust and how she plans to deal with her lecherous husband who doesn’t spare the maids in the house.

The storytelling isn't always lusty. But when it is, there is enough zest in here for the occasional creases not to get in the way.

With more hits than misses, Netflix delivers another winner on desi sexuality.

This chapter is less successful than Akhtar’s film in making the most of its mostly interior setting. The jumpy editing is a distraction from the story’s real strength: its writing and performances.

For the most part, the series' understanding of lust is so painfully reductive that it yields stories that encourage neither attentive watching nor ingenious reading. All save one.

A victim of its own marketing (and the always arbitrary manner in which Netflix seems to package these anthologies), Sex with the Ex has been unfairly criticised for its odd tone and lack of chemistry between the two leads.

Once again featuring four short stories by four directors with a decidedly diverse film-making voice, it is a fairly worthwhile follow-up whose potential as a streaming franchise cannot be undermined.