Aan Tiwari honoured with Best Child Actor award for Baal ShivReviews
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Review: The Last Color: Low on grey shades
The Last Color seems like a ‘showcase Indian film', the sort that the festival circuit in the West easily laps up. The film highlights a few societal ills specific to India, against the lavishly ethnic backdrop of Benaras.
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Review: Torbaaz: Stumped by weak storytelling
Torbaaz talks of war and terror, and the toll such things may take on children. The film fuses the idea with the power of sports -- in this case, cricket -- to unite and heal.
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Review: A Call To Spy: Important slice of history
You would expect more suspense and drama given the subject at hand, and the sense of overall underwhelming does surprise you. Director Lydia Dean Pilcher has borrowed from one of the most intriguing chapters of World War II, but her effort fails to fully engage because the film falters at a storytelling level.
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Review: Durgamati: Low on scares, high on cliches
ou were just beginning to get excited about new-age Bollywood horror after cutting-edge stuff as Stree and Tumbbad. Then came Laxmii, and now Durgamati -- as rude reminder that Bollywood horror still has some way to go.
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Review: Mank: Hollywood in black and white, and grey
It is the turn of David Fincher this time, to romance Hollywood in black and white. Hollywood loves this sort of an introspection once in a while, which harks back to its glory days and deconstructing the grime beneath the glamour.
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Review: Darbaan: Poignant drama
Nadkarni's film rides a second asset besides the hallmark emotive nuances that come with a Rabindranath Tagore classic.
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Review: Ava: Cliches kill the thrills
From Anna to Hanna to Atomic Blonde or Unlocked, the ladies in Hollywood have been doing brisk business too, playing the killer within the assassin/spy template. It's Jessica Chastain's turn now to get going with formulaic kills.
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Review: Mosul: Gritty, gripping engrossing war drama
Avengers director duo Joe and Anthony Russo have produced an action film which is quite an antithesis of the fantasy-loaded superhero razzmatazz that has come to be their calling card.
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Review: Mosul: Gritty, gripping war drama
The film begins at a time the violence in Mosul is ebbing and the Nineveh province's SWAT unit, comprising local men who have been directly or indirectly affected by the scourge of ISIS, is on a final mission.
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Review: Peninsula: Sequel to nowhere
The market logistics driving this sequel is blatant in the way it has been named. Officially (and quite unimaginatively), the film is called Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula.
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Review: Middle Class Melodies: Leaves you in a happy space
Middle Class Melodies -- don't go by the title -- is not a musical, nor does it have any reference to melody. The title is used to convey a feel of the regular humdrum of life.
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Review: Target Number One: Slightly off target
Daniel Roby's Canadian crime drama draws inspiration from the real-life story of Alain Olivier, a drug addict in Quebec who ended up in a Thailand jail for years after a sad twist of events. Alain had become a pawn in a top secret operation of the Canadian law enforcers that went wrong.
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Review: A Simple Murder: Knotty naughty crime comedy
A Simple Murder does become contrived at times, given the willing suspension of disbelief it demands as the episodes roll, with unfailing frequency. But chances are you will not complain.
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Review: The Crown season 4: Headier than ever
Season four of The Crown starts off with a couple of advantages. By now, the series has garnered a formidable fan base, so wide reception is no longer a challenge. More importantly, the story enters what must be the most appealing phase in modern English history.
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Review: Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari: Wobbles between satire and slapstick
Abhishek Sharma is back with a satire, and he loves being deliberately scatterbrained about it -- we know from his two Tere Bin Laden films. Being goofy and caustic at the same time can be tricky business.
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Review: Chhalaang: Simple story with simple message
he story is set in heartland Haryana, and that gives him a passable scope to talk patriarchy without getting too heavy about it.
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Review: Ludo: Peculiar play of emotions
Ludo is brilliant as a concept, engaging in execution, but mostly mediocre in output. It is a film that ensembles four intertwined stories of love and relationships, and the idea is to spread out a narrative with a twist of irreverence and wry humour.
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Review: ‘Laxmii’ bombs
The last time he did it was in Diwali last year, with Housefull 4. He is back this Diwali with a film that would make Housefull 4 seem like a classic.
