Category: Movie Reviews

A dead terrorist’s son adopted by a no-nonsense police officer grows up with a mammoth chip on his shoulder – come what may, the young man is determined to go out of his way to save the nation from harm and earn for himself the label of a true patriot. He needs little provocation to...

Tennis isn’t just a game in which you hit a ball with a racquet, says Zendaya’s clinically single-minded Tashi Duncan, a champion whose career was cut short by an injury. It is a relationship, she insinuates. What she leaves unsaid but Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers does not is that sport has a way of shifting not...

Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s first web series, an artful and overwrought female-led period drama, is crammed with everything that the director’s big-screen ventures are known for. It has massive and lavish sets, visual grandeur, intense emotions, stylistic flamboyance, sustained musicality and striking performances. Is there more? Yes, there is. Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar reimagines 1940s Lahore...

Ryan Gosling channels his inner Ken and creates an action-comedy version of his Barbie character in The Fall Guy, former stunt coordinator and Brad Pitt’s stunt double David Leitch’s lively tribute to the underappreciated members of his erstwhile tribe of performers who risk life and limb to liven up the movies. Like he did in...

Ruminations on the ethics of news journalism follow a freewheeling yet tortuous path in Season 2 of The Broken News as professional principles and personal prejudices collide in a deleterious and bruising battle for supremacy between two television channels. The eight-episode Zee5 series, fronted by Sonali Bendre, Jaideep Ahlawat and Shriya Pilgaonkar, explores the labyrinths...

Aided by an exquisitely skilful performance from Rajkummar Rao – this despite the fact that the actor has to push himself to the limits to come across as a teenager and a twentysomething – Srikanth isn’t an average Bollywood biopic. It seldom takes recourse to overt melodrama to showcase the magnitude of the visually impaired...

The fourth chapter of one of the greatest science fiction reboot trilogies ever produced, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes may not exactly roll off the tongue but the film isn’t quite that hard to sit through notwithstanding its length and overwhelming familiarity. Yet, the question refuses to go away: was it at all...

Spectacular and only sporadically exhilarating, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is, to be sure, not without its moments. But the moments that the film rustles up come and go without always being convincing in the way that they are staged or in the manner that they are placed within, and in relation to, the ‘flow’...

New Delhi: Unabashedly self-indulgent and deliriously and unceasingly inventive, Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s intended million swan song might prove to be as much a $120 million folly as an 85-year-old director’s leap of artistic faith. “When you leap into the unknown, you prove you are free,” says one character in the film. If nothing else,...

The cop drama receives a pronounced makeover in Santosh, British-Indian director Sandhya Suri’s first fiction feature, a Hindi-language film featuring Shahana Goswami and Sunita Rajwar in roles that neither has played before. The film forays into the rural boondocks of North India and examines religious prejudice, caste discrimination, abuse of power, custodial torture and gender...