Siddharth Koul and Ankit Wali’s ‘Batt Koch’ is an intimate portrait of a Kashmiri Pandit family
A family in Jammu City plans a trip to Kashmir. It is not easy for a number of reasons. What we see here isn’t something dramatic, but the […]
Abhinav Sundar Nayak’s ‘Mollywood Times’ is a fascinating love letter to the idea of being true to your self
Naslen plays an outsider who wants to become the greatest maker of horror films in Malayalam cinema. But fate has other plans. ‘Mollywood Times’ is less about the
Pandiraaj’s ‘Parimala and Co’ wastes a talented cast in an utterly clueless movie
Jayaram and Urvashi play a couple that gets involved in a ‘Drishyam’-like murder. For a while, the film looks like a spoof. Then, it gets all serious on
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Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Bandar’ is a brilliant examination of a former star being stuck in one cage after another
Bobby Deol is fantastic in the role of a lifetime as a has-been movie star. His life is down in the dumps. And things get worse when he
Buchi Babu Sana’s ‘Peddi’ takes a good subject and flattens it by forgetting to add a good screenplay
Ram Charan is terrific as the title character, a sportsman who plays cricket and wrestles and is also a good runner. The story has a lot of meat
Suresh Triveni’s ‘Maa Behen’ wants to combine female empowerment and fun, and the result is middling
Madhuri Dixit plays the head of a family. She has two daughters, played by Triptii Dimri and Dharna Durga. And they get into a crazy situation with their
Vivek Soni’s ‘Chand Mera Dil’ has a few issues, but overall, it is an intense, involving relationship drama about two messed-up people
Ananya Panday is excellent as Chandni. Lakshya plays Aarav. They fall in love. Then a crisis erupts and she pushes him away. We keep waiting for them to
Paul George’s ‘Kattalan’ is an exhausting series of stylised images pretending to be a movie
Two gangs of ivory poachers are at war. Who will win? This stylised and violent film wants us to care about the outcome, but all we are left
Subash K Raj’s ‘Blast’ is a well-written action movie that makes good use of its USP of a family of fighters
Arjun, Abhirami and Preity Mukhundhan play a family of karate fighters. They just want to mind their own business and maybe help a helpless person or two. But
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s ‘System’, on Prime Video, is a decent friendship drama and an undercooked courtroom drama
Jyotika (as a stenographer) and Sonakshi Sinha (as a lawyer) play unlikely friends who become partners in solving cases (or rather, they’re courtroom partners who become unlikely friends).
Jeethu Joseph’s ‘Drishyam 3’ is a fine sequel where the plotting overcomes predictability
Mohanlal and Meena are back as Georgekutty and Rani. They want to get their older daughter married off, but the past keeps following them. The characters could have
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Mudassar Aziz’s ‘Pati Patni Aur Woh Do’ doesn’t even try to be much of a comedy
Ayushmann Khurrana is in good form as a forest officer who’s suspected of having an affair. The women around him are Wamiqa Gabbi, Rakul Preet Singh, and Sara
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