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Shalini Langer

Shalini Langer's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The History of Sound (2025) 70% 2/5 EDIT “This film, adapted by Ben Shattuck from a pair of his own short stories, gives the two actors nothing to do but look lovingly at each other – and, at brief respites, at other people. ” – The Indian Express Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “To say [the film is] about ping pong, wouldn’t do it full justice. For, this Josh Safdie film does jump and loop, blaze and smash like the sport’s furious pings and pongs. But none of it would matter without Timothée Chalamet.” – The Indian Express Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 51% 1.5/5 EDIT “So, should we care [about the film]? Only if you want to see Gerard Butler do his braveheart thing again, and a teary Morena Baccarin play the second fiddle, and son Nathan tag along, being alternatively hugged and asked “Are you okay?”” – The Indian Express Jan 16, 2026 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% 2.5/5 EDIT “The fact that [the film] works, to a degree, is thanks to Poots, whose commitment to Lidia’s self-flagellation and self-destruction is total. ” – The Indian Express Jan 16, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 3/5 EDIT “...as a placeholder for another sequel, The Bone Temple is just the right amount of modest — taking the story forward and giving its characters a developmental arc.” – The Indian Express Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 3.5/5 EDIT “ It’s a simple story, about un-extraordinary people whose dreams of doing extraordinary things have almost dimmed, and about their un-complex families and uncomplicated love. It should not be, but it is amazing how rare this is on the big screen.” – The Indian Express Jan 12, 2026 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% 2.5/5 EDIT “Those familiar with the Freida McFadden bestseller that the film is based on will know how it goes. But even those who are not, can join the dots quicker than The Housemaid gives them credit for.” – The Indian Express Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 3.5/5 EDIT “...[Avatar] remains as breathtakingly imaginative as ever. However, you may find yourself wishing it also took some breaths – as Cameron builds and builds on what is now a familiar template.” – The Indian Express Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Christmas Karma (2025) 24% 1.5/5 EDIT “...since this is essentially a story that was written by Dickens in 1843, Chadha can’t do much, except waste a couple more known faces in a couple more thankless roles...” – The Indian Express Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 2.5/5 EDIT “However, then Jay Kelly gets into heavier – and, in this case, unconvincing – territory about what one loses in the race to get far ahead in life. We have all been in that race and, believe me, a few wins never hurt anybody.” – The Indian Express Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Dhurandhar (2025) 42% 2.5/5 EDIT “To give credit where it is due, despite the many, many characters Dhurandhar introduces to give us a sense of Lyari’s power, crime, political and family dynamics, the plot is fairly comprehensible.” – The Indian Express Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% 2/5 EDIT “You can see the ending coming a long way off, even if the film wants you to ponder – briefly – about “love that has not been tested by loss” versus “youthful love”.” – The Indian Express Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 3/5 EDIT “The “lessons” at the heart of this film are perhaps too on the nose. But that is not necessarily bad for a film that is meant for children , whose central message is embracing difference,...and at a time when adults need to relearn that too.” – The Indian Express Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) 95% 2.5/5 EDIT “It’s in the final stretch, shot on a train hurtling to Siberia, with Aatami and Draganov directly pitted against each other as two mortal and unnatural enemies, that Road to Revenge reaches its high points. ” – The Indian Express Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 3.5/5 EDIT “...Wicked: For Good is valiant — and impressive — in its exploration of goodness and wickedness, how one feeds on the other, and also, the meaning of truth and if anybody wants it.” – The Indian Express Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% 3/5 EDIT “Based on Jack El-Hai’s book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, it wants you to introspect how those horrors of the Holocaust came about, but is itself blinded by the spectacle of it.” – The Indian Express Nov 8, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 2.5/5 EDIT “The idea isn’t original, nor is Trachtenberg in its execution, with the film’s pace requiring it to squeeze its fights in one after another in quick succession.” – The Indian Express Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Black Phone 2 (2025) 72% 1/5 EDIT “If Black Phone (2021) still had a brother-sister relationship to cling to during its dire passages, Black Phone 2 has nothing. What we have is a starved-for-scares horror film that goes around in circles...” – The Indian Express Nov 2, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Stone is very, very good, as is Plemons. Neither of which is a surprise. Nor is it a surprise that Lanthimos, in this remake of a Korean film, wants to not just stimulate you but bedazzle. ” – The Indian Express Nov 2, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 3.5/5 EDIT “In extraordinary minute detail, Bigelow examines such a scenario from the perspective of different characters who would be swept up in such a crisis...” – The Indian Express Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% 2/5 EDIT “[Ballad of a Small Player is] bravely sustained by Colin Farrell, whose face must do all the attempted storytelling. The film falls in the middle of these two extremes, indulgent and self-absorbed in both its extreme beauty and its star’s dramatic range.” – The Indian Express Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Good Fortune (2025) 78% 2.5/5 EDIT “With the basic story plot of a man down on his luck...and a tech mogul whose luck just won’t run out...trading lives, thanks to the meddling of Gabriel, Good Fortune goes round and round in circles without saying much that is new.” – The Indian Express Oct 17, 2025 Full Review A Nice Indian Boy (2024) 95% 3.5/5 EDIT “Warmly acted and wonderfully nuanced, A Nice Boy wants us to look at all that seems “familiar” – and look again. Be it your parents, your well-adjusted elder sister, your partner, the big fat Indian wedding, and, above all, that old comfort, Bollywood.” – The Indian Express Oct 17, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% 2.5/5 EDIT “It skims too many surfaces for us to get under the skin of any.” – The Indian Express Oct 14, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% 3/5 EDIT “The latest film by the director who revels in exploring physical pain (Black Swan) packs a lot of pearly whites (Butler and Kravitz’s, for starters) and plenty of bark. But when it comes to bites, a few snacky bits is all you get.” – The Indian Express Oct 14, 2025 Full Review
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