Reading Time: 4 minutesDirector Jordan Peele skewers the dark, all too real face of racism and gentrification in a pulse-pounding thriller. But he also adds delicious layers of horror, terror, comedy, and nail-biting suspense. And yet, the questions “Get Out” raises are even more horrifying than its premise.
Reading Time: 4 minutes‘Veere Di Wedding’ could have been a fun-filled cinematic insight into what makes modern women tick. Instead, it’s a one-liner driven, boozy, heavy on costumes-and-little-else on what ticks them off.
Reading Time: 4 minutesDirector Abhishek Sharma sets very low ambitions and makes “Parmanu” a quasi-thriller-cum-patriotic fluff within the limited boundaries it operates. But, is this what co-producer and actor John Abraham was looking for?
Reading Time: 5 minutesDirector Alex Garland creates psychedelic imagery and stunning visuals to narrate a story that’s mind-bendingly confounding as it is challenging. But no matter what you think of it, this philosophical horror makes you think.
Reading Time: 5 minutes“Avengers: Infinity War” scores high on the entertainment dashboard with the funnies and action, even as it mildly ignores some emotional heft, making it a checklist exercise of the previous 18 MCU outings – it’s sure to send you scouring for them to connect the dots.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn “Raazi”, director Meghna Gulzar creates a compelling conflict of emotions that rise far above the thrills, thanks in no small part to Alia Bhatt’s powerhouse of a performance.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDirector Hansal Mehta makes a bewilderingly staccato and dawdling movie about a terrorist; and it’s up to actor Rajkummar Rao to do the heavy lifting and mesmerize you.
Reading Time: 4 minutesActor-director John Krasinski helms a masterful movie that’s high on unrelenting terror, and yet gets in the cares with the scares.
Reading Time: 6 minutesDirector Shoojit Sircar creates a mindful and thoughtful space in the beautiful “October”, while Varun Dhawan and Banita Sandhu create cinematic memories that linger on, long afterward.
Reading Time: 5 minutesDirector Craig Gillespie rolls out the darkly comic “I, Tonya” that hits you where it hurts, even as it tripel-axels on stunning performances by Margot Robbie and Allison Janney.