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1.5/5
Baby Girl (2026) Anandu Suresh The shallowness in the screenplay of director Arun Varma’s Baby Girl is evident right from the beginning, as it’s marred by convenient plot devices and a tendency to stretch things beyond the limit.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Cheekatilo (2026) Swaroop Kodur ...[Cheekatilo] neither attempts to chart a new path for itself nor does it work neatly within the genre conventions, leaving behind an uninspired, cliche-ridden effort.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Magic Mushrooms (2026) Anandu Suresh One of the major shortcomings of Magic Mushrooms is Nadirshah’s direction, and his frequent attempts to slip in humour at odd and unwanted junctures, complicated further by his inability to ensure subtle portrayals.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Mercy (2026) Shubhra Gupta The story-telling is flat; so is everyone on screen.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The History of Sound (2025) Shalini Langer 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.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Shalini Langer 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.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Border 2 (2026) Shubhra Gupta ...Border 2 holds on to the soul and spirit of the original, while giving us a much bigger canvas, showing conflict not just on land and air, but also water.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Chatha Pacha: The Ring of Rowdies (2026) Anandu Suresh While it stitches together intriguing individual moments, the script rarely offers narrative cohesiveness.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) Shalini Langer 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?”
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Chronology of Water (2025) Shalini Langer 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.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Shalini Langer ...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.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos (2026) Shubhra Gupta The trouble with so many ideas jostling in the film, written by Das and Amogh Ranadive, is that very little gets to breathe. Just as something is about to settle in, off it darts in another direction.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Anaganaga Oka Raju (2026) Swaroop Kodur The gags continue to occur timely, but the stakes never really feel significant.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Vaa Vaathiyaar (2025) Anandu Suresh Vaa Vaathiyaar’s story is essentially something an overreactive, verbose friend of ours might blurt out during a drinking session.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Bhartha Mahasayulaku Wignyapthi (2026) Swaroop Kodur There are a few crude and lewd jokes that should have been done away with, but if it wasn’t for the collective, comedic effort, Bhartha Mahasayulaku Wignyapthi would have sunk much earlier.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Mana ShankaraVaraprasad Garu (2026) Swaroop Kodur There is nothing to discredit about its desire to be old-school as well. The problem is when it doesn’t put in the required effort to elicit laughter from the crowd, which is sure to forgive most other kinds of slip-ups.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Pennu Case (2026) Anandu Suresh Had at least the lines been a bit more interesting, Pennu Case’s woes might have been mitigated to some extent, particularly since the movie is dialogue-heavy.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Parasakthi (2026) Anandu Suresh Parasakthi is, without doubt, an extremely important and pertinent movie in the current sociopolitical environment, offering a reminder that history has a tendency to repeat itself, and the makers deserve credit for even considering making this film.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Shalini Langer 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.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Raja Saab (2025) Swaroop Kodur The Raja Saab is a film whose potential goes grossly unrealised because of an oversight, one that ignores its novelty until very late, as well as a sloppy, outdated approach that simply seems lost from start to finish.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Housemaid (2025) Shalini Langer 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.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Ikkis (2025) Shubhra Gupta This is as anti-Dhurandhar a film as you can hope to watch in theatres this year, a film that speaks of the residual connections between people regardless of borders, as opposed to those whose intention is to stoke old wounds, and create new ones.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Anaconda (2025) Shubhra Gupta This new version of one of Hollywood’s most popular creature features is so desperate to pitch in the laughs along with the scares that it renders everything dull and diluted.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Goodbye June (2025) Alaka Sahani Even though the movie features several brilliant actors — Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough and Timothy Spall — and their heartfelt performances, it still remains simplistic, leaning on emotional shortcuts.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Vrusshabha (2025) Anandu Suresh Vrusshabha is basically the amalgamation of the various ingredients found in the pan-India formula, but cooked in the most unimpressive manner.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Sarvam Maya (2025) Anandu Suresh ...Akhil never manages to explore the supernatural element beyond a certain point. As a result, we never see Sarvam Maya utilise its potential anywhere.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri (2025) Shubhra Gupta Are we back in the 90s? Yes, yes, because that’s what the kids are thirsting for apparently: a 90s style romance, stuffed with glycerine and melodrama and songs-and-dances from that era.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Shadowbox (2025) Anandu Suresh One of the brilliant aspects of Baksho Bondi is that it isn’t just another poverty-porn movie shamelessly offering pity-based storytelling. Tanushree and Saumyananda ensure that there isn’t an elite gaze that leeches off the sufferings of the destitute.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Shalini Langer ...[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.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders (2025) Shubhra Gupta And while [Raat Akeli Hai]...does have several engaging parts, it didn’t hold me as much as the first.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Bha Bha Ba (2025) Swaroop Kodur Bha Bha Ba is dense, to say the least, and even the fleeting moments of entertainment feel suffocated under the weight of its overindulgence.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Great Shamsuddin Family (2025) Shubhra Gupta Watch it for the array of solid performances, helmed by the wonderful Farida Jalal and Sheeba Chaddha, with Anup Soni’s criminally brief appearance leaving a mark. It isn’t perfect, but it makes you smile and think.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Saali Mohabbat (2025) Shubhra Gupta This is the kind of film that should leave you chilled, but the beats are familiar, you can see the climactic twist coming a mile off.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Christmas Karma (2025) Shalini Langer ...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...
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Shubhra Gupta The performances are all top-notch, with O’Connor turning in one of those beautifully-judged acts which makes you want to start believing again in the goodness of humans.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Akhanda 2 - Thaandavam (2025) Swaroop Kodur What [Akhanda 2] direly needed was a more purposeful script that didn’t want to so heavily rely on its boisterous voice and its equally boisterous leading man.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
The Devil (2025) Swaroop Kodur With an archaic story, a lacklustre narrative and an overall problematic gaze towards the women in the story, The Devil revs itself up simply under the guise of a major star vehicle but fails to live up to the tall promise it boasted.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Jay Kelly (2025) Shalini Langer 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.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Dhurandhar (2025) Shalini Langer 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.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Kalamkaval (2025) Anandu Suresh Despite a strong story, which evidently draws on the life of real-life serial killer Cyanide Mohan, Kalamkaval disappoints by failing to keep viewers glued to the screen.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Stephen (2025) Shubhra Gupta For a film like this, then, to be able to predict what will happen much before it actually does, isn’t the best look.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Kaisi Ye Paheli (2025) Shubhra Gupta The red herrings are weak. And the big reveal isn’t one at all: sharp-eyed viewers will spot the killer a mile off.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Eternity (2025) Shalini Langer 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”.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Zootopia 2 (2025) Shalini Langer 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.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Tere Ishk Mein (2025) Shubhra Gupta ...it’s unbelievable that a contemporary film will try and shove down our throats that most toxic of male tropes...
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Gustaakh Ishq (2025) Shubhra Gupta ...this is is the kind of film whose dialogues are meant to draw wah-wahi — but that it struggles to make you feel.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Andhra King Taluka (2025) Swaroop Kodur Once all the ‘intents’ of the film are established, Mahesh Babu P finds himself entrusted with a juggling act that, although ambitious, grows a little overbearing with time.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Train Dreams (2025) Rahul Pratyush Watching Train Dreams feels a bit like that old superstition: as if the film slips past you with such force and sorrow and beauty that you look up at the end unsure how much of your own life it has carried off.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Vilayath Budha (2025) Anandu Suresh [Jayan Nambiar] has mostly tried to picturise the written words as is, without attempting minimalism or finding ways to condense lengthy scenes/dialogues into few striking visuals.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) Shalini Langer 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.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
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