Cast: Rohit Saraf, Pashmina Roshan, Jibraan Khan, Naila Grrewal, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Shilpa Tulaskar, Akarsh Khurana and Kusha Kapila
(2/5)Nonika Singh It promises to be an atypical love story, a lighthearted look at Gen Z and their love conflicts. Alas, this spiritual sequel to Shahid Kapoor’s debut film ‘Ishq Vishk’ ends up being neither. A film within a film…...
Cast: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Mirka Federer, Tony Godsick and Anna Wintour
(3/5)Parbina Rashid “I hope I won’t have to use those tissues…” From the moment Roger Federer utters those words to the moment he breaks down in front of the 6,500-strong crowd at London’s O2 Arena 12 days later, ‘Federer:...
Cast: Ammy Virk, Sonam Bajwa, Yashpal Sharma, Yograj Singh, Ajay Hooda, Hardeep Gill, Honey Mattu, Seema Kaushal, Mahabir Bhullar and Manpreet Dolly
(2.5/5)Sheetal Punjabi cinema has become inclusive and the latest theatrical offering, Kudi Haryane Val Di, is an example. With Ammy Virk and Sonam Bajwa as his lead actors, writer-director Rakesh Dhawan shifts his focus on the villages of Haryana. The...
Cast: Manav Vij, Monika Panwar, Saloni Batra, Gopal Datt, Rajesh Tailang, Naved Aslam and Saria Iqbal
(2/5)Sheetal There’s a limit to how much one can draw from real-life incidents and wrap it in a new fictional story. On the shocking Burari death incident of mass suicide, we already have a well-made documentary, ‘House of Secrets:...
Cast: Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Kensington Tallman, Liza Lapira, Tony Hale, Lewis Black, Phyllis Smith, Ayo Edebiri
(3.5/5)Johnson Thomas This sequel to the acclaimed Pixar film delves deeper into the emotional roller coaster called adolescence. The narrative follows Riley Andersen (Kensington Tallman) as she transitions from middle school to high school, encountering the turbulence of puberty...
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré, Siobhan Hewlett, Alistair Brammer, Hannah Howland, Oliver Finnegan and Charles Camrose
(2/5)Johnson Thomas AM Shine’s novel is the source material for this half-baked attempt at spooks in the typical Shyamalan tradition. Since it is Night Shyamalan’s 23-year-old daughter Ishana’s debut as a writer/director, it seems the apple hasn’t fallen far...
Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Ayan Khan Sroha, Bhuvan Arora, Yashpal Sharma, Rajpal Yadav, Aniruddh Dave, Vijay Raaz, Shreyas Talpade, Bhagyashri Borse and Sonali Kulkarni
(3/5)Nonika Singh A village boy dreaming of winning an Olympics medal, that too in the 1950s? Sounds incredible, improbable…. Indeed, ‘Chandu Champion’ is a story waiting to be told and even more surprising, why hadn’t we heard it before?...
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Ivan Morris Howe, Gaby Hoffmann, McKinley Belcher III, Roberta Colindrez, Jeff Hephner, Wade Allain-Marcus, Mark Gillis , Dan Fogler and Clarke Peters
(3/5)Nonika Singh A broken man, a dysfunctional family and a missing nine-year-old kid at the centre of it, Eric takes us into the darkest recesses of human mind yet like the name of its lead character Vincent’s television show Good...
Cast: Vikrant Massey, Anant Vijay Joshi, Sunil Grover, Mouni Roy, Chhaya Kadam, Jisshu Sengupta, Ruhani Singh, Karan Sudhakar Sonawane and Saurabh Dilip Ghadge
(1.5/5)Sheetal There’s a reason certain films don’t make it to theatres and end up premiering on OTT. ‘Blackout’ falls in the same category. Perhaps director Devang Bhavsar overestimated himself while developing his story into screenplay. The Dalal brothers, Hussain...
Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Nunez, Eric Dane, Ioan Gruffudd, Jacob Scipio, Melanie Liburd, Tasha Smith, Rhea Seehorn, Tiffany Haddish, Joe Pantoliano, DJ Khaled, John Salley
(3/5)Johnson Thomas This is the fourth movie in the series and there’s no let-up here. The ageing buddy-cop duo get into the act and it’s a joyride all the way. They still talk motor-mouthed meaningless stuff, the f-words and...
Cast: Jordan Burtchett, Tristan McKinnon, Kurt Ostlund, Gavin Langelo, Lesley Mirza and Scott Patey
(3/5)Nonika Singh He is charming and handsome, looks and lives like a Tarzan, of course on an extravagant tree house. While his identity in the real-life crime documentary is revealed early on, nothing about him or his lifestyle is a...
Cast: Karoly Kozma, Imre Csok, Balazs Kato, Soma Zambori
(4/5)Parbina Rashid A trip to the Buchenwald Memorial in Weimar, Germany, made me aware of two things — the horror of the Holocaust and the lingering national shame. A mention of my plan to visit the concentration camp made my...
Cast: Sanjay Kapoor, Rituraj K Singh, Ssmilly Suri, Ajitesh Gupta, Hiten Paintal, Simran Kaur Suri
(1.5/5)Vikrant Parmar Interest is piqued as the title House of Lies appears on screen first, a Hindi film with an English title (albeit xeroxed from a 2012 American television series)…hmmm maybe it’s a fare to savour. Quite the opposite, it...
Cast: Madelaine Petsch, Ryan Bown, Matus Lajcak, Rachel Shenton, Megan Suri and Gabriel Basso
(2.5/5)Johnson Thomas The 2008 film ‘The Strangers’ was indeed a nerve-wracking experience. Sixteen years later, we get a rather watered-down reboot that fails to make the accumulated experience memorable. ‘The Strangers: Chapter 1’ is neither stylish, nor energetic. This prequel...
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Divya Khossla, Harshvardhan Rane, Mairaj Kakkar, Raageshwari Loomba Swaroop and MK Raina
(2/5)Parbina Rashid It can happen only in Bollywood! To retell the mythological story of our own Savitri and Satyavan, it has to borrow the plot of a French film, ‘Pour Elle’ (2008)! But to give credit to director Abhinay Deo,...
Cast: Neena Gupta, Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Faisal Malik, Chandan Roy, Sanvikaa, Saad Bilgrami, Pankaj Jha, Kusum Shastri and Vinod Suryawanshi
(3.5/5)Sheetal There’s always a chance for the viewers to lose interest in a franchise series with each passing season. Thankfully, that’s not the case with the slice-of-life comedy drama ‘Panchayat’. Despite the third season being released after two years, the...
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Janhvi Kapoor, Kumud Mishra, Rajesh Sharma, Zarina Wahab, Purnendu Bhattacharya and Arijit Taneja
(2.5/5)Nonika Singh Cricket unites the whole of India, so it can certainly be a unifier between husband and wife. Only ‘Mr and Mrs Mahi’ is not just about a couple’s love for cricket. Rather, it blends relationship drama with the...
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Yumna Marwan, Dali Benssalah, Josh Charles and Thibault de Montalembert
(3/5)Nonika Singh SPECIAL agents trying to bust a terrorist cell… you try hard to supress that yawn! For haven’t you seen similar premise unfolding in more than one web series. But let it be known, The Veil is not your...
JioCinema The science fiction farnchise’s second part hit the theatres two month ago and is now available for digital audiences. The film features Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya as they reprise their roles from part one. It also welcomes the new...
Sheetal There’s a reason sports documentaries are a hit among the fans of the game, for these walk you right into the dressing room where players are discussing strategies. These, however, score a six when they make the game impressionable...
Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Vipin Sharma, Jatin Goswami, Suvinder Vicky, Zoya Hussain, Akash Makhija, Amrendra Sharma and Bhageerathi Bai Kadam
(1/5)Parbina Rashid Bollywood is not ready to let go of its ‘Animal’ instinct. If anything, it has found its template in the 2023 Ranbir Kapoor-starrer. We thought we had seen the ‘wildest’ side of the industry with Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s...
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu, Sterling K Brown, Gregory James Cohan, Mark Strong and Abraham Popoola
(2/5)Nonika Singh AI as a threat to mankind isn’t a novel concept. More than one Hollywood actioner has walked this path and often made for reasonable entertainers, if not an in-depth and incisive study. Only, what seemed like sci-fi a...
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Alyla Browne, George Shevtsov, Lachy Hulme, John Howard, Angus Sampson, Charlee Fraser, Elsa Pataky, Nathan Jones, Josh Helman
(4/5)Johnson Thomas This George Miller epic, fifth in his Mad Max series, coming after the exceptional ‘Fury Road’, is a treat to watch. It’s a prequel which outlines Furiosa’s origins and the reasons for her rage. Set in a futuristic...
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Kerry Bishé, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O’Connor, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts and Adam Scott
(2/5)Sheetal With ‘Wonder Woman’, ‘She Hulk’, ‘Black Widow’ and ‘Ms Marvel’ leaving behind a trail of ‘womanification’ of superhero flicks in their wake, Madame Web, another mutant character from Marvel Comics, gets its own film. The character first appeared in...
Cast: Lily Gladstone, Riley Keough, Vritika Gupta, Archie Panjabi, Ezra Faroque Khan Chloe Guidry, Javon Walton and Aiyana Goodfellow
(3/5)Parbina Rashid A bunch of ‘disposable’ girls from Seven Oaks group home, a journalist looking for material for her book, and a police officer battling her own past — all connected through a murder. ‘Under The Bridge’ is an eight-part...
Cast: Cailey Fleming, Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Fiona Shaw, Catherine Daddario, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Richard Jenkins, Awkwafina, George Clooney, Bradley Cooper, Blake Lively, Louis Gossett Jr.
(3/5)Johnson Thomas Written and directed by John Krasinski following the horror-thriller franchise ‘A Quiet Place’, this effort may come as a surprise because it’s really different from those films. The narrative gets off to a brisk start and plunges into...
Nonika Singh It’s common knowledge that a whole lot of married men and women, too, are on dating sites. But one dedicated entirely to promote adultery sounds a bit of a stretch, if you have not heard of this Canadian...
Cast: Ashutosh Rana, Vijay Raaz, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Shivaji Satam, Divya Jagdale, Rajesh Khattar, Smita Tambe, Benafsha Soonawalla
(2.5/5)Sheetal In the name of inclusivity, LGBTQIA+ is a subject that has been done to death. Yet, the surface has been barely scratched. We all hailed Zoya Akhtar for the respect given to the trans character in ‘Made in Heaven’,...
Cast: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Peter Macon, William H Macy, Kevin Durand and Dichen Lachman
(3/5)Johnson Thomas Disney’s attempt to keep a good thing going has resulted in the resurrection of a franchise which ended with the culmination of a new trilogy in 2017’s ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’. Caesar’s shadow follows...
Parbina Rashid Paul McCartney sang the ‘words of wisdom’ that Mother Mary ‘whispered’ to him and we knew that ‘there will be an answer’ to all our problems. We happily chorused with him, ‘Let it be, Let it be…’ But...
