Movie Review

• Thunderbolts

  Cast: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Wyatt Russell, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, Lewis Pullman, Olga Kurylenko, Geraldine Viswanathan, Wendell Edward Pierce, Chris Bauer

  An entertainer it is

  (3/5)

  ‘Thunderbolts’, the latest in Marvel’s second generation comic book hero movie adaptations, is a refreshingly fun engagement. It doesn’t have the power and dynamics of ‘The Avengers’, but it sits pretty well in the MCU. This new chapter, a sort...

  03 May 2025
• Zee5 Costao

  Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Priya Bapat, Kishore Kumar G, Gagan Dev Riar, Hussain Dala

  Casting light on a real story

  (2.5/5)

  Set in the Goa of the 1990s, the film revolves around Costao, who on a tip-off goes all by himself to seize 15,000 kg of gold being smuggled into the state by a mobster

  02 May 2025
• Netflix You Season 5

  Cast: Penn Badgley, Charlotte Ritchie, Madeline Brewer, Tati Gabrielle, Amy-Leigh Hickman, Anna Camp, Griffin Matthews, Nava Mau and Natasha Behnam

  Hollow farewell to charming monster

  (2.5/5)

  ‘You’ was at its absolute best through its first three seasons

  02 May 2025
• Raid 2

  Cast: Ajay Devgn, Riteish Deshmukh, Vaani Kapoor, Rajat Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, Supriya Pathak, Amit Sial, Shruti Pandey, Brijendra Kala, Yashpal Sharma and Govind Namdev

  Taxing sequel of an income-tax raid

  (2.5/5)

  ‘Raid 2’ is not a spiritual sequel, as has become the norm today. Rather, it is still the tale of the upright income-tax officer Amay Patnaik

  02 May 2025
• Netflix Havoc

  Cast: Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Timothy Olyphant, Forest Whitaker

  Mindless mayhem

  (2.5/5)

  The biggest high of the film is its super-stylised action.

  25 Apr 2025
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  25 Apr 2025
• Until Dawn

  Cast: Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Odessa A'zion, Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli, Maia Mitchell, Peter Stormare, Willem van der Vegt

  Press ‘reset’ for a better show

  (2.5/5)

  This film is unlikely to satisfy fans of the game or the horror genre.

  25 Apr 2025
• Ground Zero

  Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Sai Tamhankar, Zoya Hussain, Abhay Dheeraj Singh, Deepak Parmesh, Lalit Prabhakar, Rockey Raina and Rahul Vohra

  Valley and the valiant

  (2.5/5)

  A detour from the current style of hyper-nationalistic storytelling, the film is refreshing

  25 Apr 2025
• Netflix Jewel Thief: The Heist Begins

  Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Jaideep Ahlawat, Kunal Kapoor and Nikita Dutta

  Hands up, disappoints hands down

  (2/5)

  Despite style and speed, ‘Jewel Thief’ leaves you thoroughly dejected.

  25 Apr 2025
• Netflix The Diamond Heist

  Cast: Tuncay Gunes, Nicholas Blatt and Luke Philpott

  Ritchie’s rich fare

  At its heart, Netflix miniseries ‘The Diamond Heist’ is a story of honour

  19 Apr 2025
• Paddington in Peru

  Cast: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Antonio Banderas, Olivia Colman, Julie Walters, Samuel Joslin, Madeleine Harris

  Fun on contrived quest to Peru

  ‘Paddington in Peru’ may not be as good as its predecessors ‘Paddington’ (2014) and ‘Paddington 2’ (2017), but it has got its own brand of fun

  18 Apr 2025
• Zee5 Logout

  Cast: Babil Khan, Rasika Dugal, Gandharv Dewan and Nimisha Nair

  Log in to ‘Logout’

  The Amit Golani directorial focuses on the life of an influencer and serves the tale as a psychological thriller

  18 Apr 2025
• Kesari Chapter 2

  Cast: Akshay Kumar, Ananya Panday, R Madhavan, Steven Hartley, Mark Bennington, Simon Paisley Day

  Unforgettable chapter, but not here

  ‘Kesari Chapter 2’ comes with the tagline: ‘The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh’, but this story has found its way to the silver screen time and again

  18 Apr 2025
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  18 Apr 2025
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  12 Apr 2025
• Akaal

  Cast: Gippy Grewal, Nimrat Khaira, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Nikitin Dheer, Mita Vashisht, Prince Kanwaljit Singh, Jaggi Singh, Shinda Grewal, Ekom Grewal and Apinderdeep Singh

  Hitting the right notes

  Set in Punjab right after Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s demise, Akaal: The Unconquered’ delivers a hefty entertainer

  11 Apr 2025
• The Amateur

  Cast: Rami Malek, Michael Stuhlbarg, Laurence Fishburne, Rachel Brosnahan, Jon Bernthal, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson and Evan Milton

  Spy thriller that doesn’t thrill

  The Amateur feels more like a bland knockoff of a dozen other films of similar vein

  11 Apr 2025
• Prime Video Chhorii 2

  Cast: Nushrratt Bharuccha, Soha Ali Khan, Gashmeer Mahajani, Kuldeep Sareen, Saurabh Goyal, Pallavi Ajay, Hardika Sharma

  A rather bland ghost land

  There are more ghosts than characters in 'Chhorii 2'

  11 Apr 2025
• Jaat

  Cast: Sunny Deol, Regina Cassandra, Randeep Hooda, Vineet Kumar Singh, Saiyami Kher, Ramya Krishnan, Jagapathi Babu, P Ravi Shankar, Babloo Prithiveeraj and Zarina Wahab

  Sunny side up, punches & punchlines

  Jaat leaves you with little time to pause and think and qualifies as a mass entertainer

  11 Apr 2025
• What’s streaming

  Test Netflix The worlds of three ordinary people converge during a historic cricket match in Chennai, ultimately forcing them to make life-altering decisions. The Tamil language sports drama, which stars Madhavan, Nayanthara, Siddharth and Meera Jasmine in key roles, marks...

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  05 Apr 2025
• Netflix The Life List

  Cast: Sofia Carson, Kyle Allen, Connie Britton, Michael Rowland, Sebastian de Souza, Maria Jung and Kyle Allen

  Shallow show

  (2/5)

  To be a great teacher, to play one-on-one with one of the New York Knicks, to try a stand-up comedy act, to find true love… ‘The Life List’ charts the journey of Alexandra, aka Alex, on the wrong side of...

  05 Apr 2025
• Game-to-screen experience

  Minecraft, the game, was released in 2011 by Swedish developer Markus Persson, and it was about creative world-building within a digital landscape. The film, though, had a set agenda and it was not possible for the players to choose their...

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  05 Apr 2025
• Prime video The Bondsman

  Cast: Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Nettles, Beth Grant, Damon Herriman and Maxwell Jenkins

  Just fails to bond

  (1.5/5)

  Demon and devil! Is there a difference? In Christian theology, a demon refers to a category of evil spirits, while devil is a specific individual, the leader of these demons. In this Thor Freudenthal, Sanaa Hamri, Catriona McKenzie and Lauren...

  05 Apr 2025
• SonyLiv Chamak: The Conclusion

  Cast: Manoj Pahwa, Gippy Grewal, Paramvir Cheema, Mohit Malik, Isha Talwar, Navneet Nishan, Akasa Singh, Mukesh Chhabra and Prince Kanwaljit Singh

  Dark shades of Punjabi music industry

  (2.5/5)

  What can be more fascinating than a glimpse into what goes on behind the scenes in the Punjabi music industry? Invariably reverberating with rocking beats, it has deep fault lines that are exposed every now and then. So, can a...

  05 Apr 2025
• Sikandar

  Cast: Salman Khan, Rashmika Mandanna, Kajal Aggarwal, Sathyaraj, Sharman Joshi, Prateik Babbar, Anjini Dhawan, Kishore, Jatin Sarna, Sanjay Kapoor, Nawab Shah and Vishal Vashishtha

  Salman’s Eidi is so disappointing

  (1.5/5)

  Logic has never been the strength of Salman Khan’s ‘suspension of credulity’ variant of films. But at least massy entertainment high on actiona and drama with right tadka of comedy has been his and his kind of cinema’s forte. Alas,...

  31 Mar 2025
• The White Lotus Season 3

  Cast: Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Sarah Catherine Hook, Jason Isaacs, Lalisa Manobal, Michelle Monaghan, Sam Nivola, Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Tayme Thapthimthong, Aimee Lou Wood and Sam Rockwell

  Super rich & a wealth of superficiality

  (3/5)

  Lust and pleasure, pain and meditation, West and East… can all these inhabit the same space? Well, in Mike White’s third season of ‘The White Lotus’, they do. Those familiar with his award-winning franchise and template are well aware that...

  30 Mar 2025
• Black Bag

  Cast: Michael Fassbender, Gustaf Skarsgard, Cate Blanchett, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke

  Keeps you guessing till the end

  (3/5)

  Stephen Soderbergh’s spy thriller ‘Black Bag’ plays it vocal. It is a taut, smart film with a lot of details and little clues pieced together to form a grand scheme. It’s nothing new as far as the spy fiction genre...

  30 Mar 2025
• Prime Video Holland

  Cast: Nicole Kidman, Gael García Bernal, Matthew Macfadyen and Jude Hill

  Nancy minus the Drew vibe

  (2/5)

  When a film is titled ‘Holland’ and set in a place filled with Dutch-Americans, tulips and windmills, and all establishments are named after it (Holland Optometry, Holland High School and so on), one expects the town to be as much...

  30 Mar 2025
• Tenu Ghodi Kinney Chadaya

  Cast: Harby Sangha, Raavi Kaur Bal, Raj Dhaliwal, Mahabir Bhullar, Gurpreet Toti and Gurinder Makhna

  All gone wrong

  (1/5)

  Having spent an hour and 40 minutes watching a movie and not knowing where to start… this can be a sign of being deeply moved or utterly unimpressed. In this case, it’s the latter, and the rating reflects it. But...

  30 Mar 2025
• What’s streaming

  Mufasa The Lion King JioHotstar The movie is about a lost and lonely cub who meets a sympathetic lion named Taka, the heir to the royal bloodline.

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  30 Mar 2025