Meenakshi Sundareshwar, while light-touch and amiable, misses smack urgency and fun for a safe, slow walk.
Sardar Udham is a riveting and stunning story of one of India’s lesser documented revolutionaries. Vicky Kaushal turns in his finest yet.
From his score for Ghungroo Ki Awaaz, Rahul Dev Burman creates this sinking-into-despair beauty that’s tightly knit into a musical form.
The Father is a brutal watch. It’s unnerving, painful, and yet hypnotic. And it’s scary as hell. Plus, Anthony Hopkins is devastating.
There’s something intimately familiar and hence moving about Saving Mr. Banks. Plus, there’s Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks.
A glacially progressing look at intimate relationships, Aarkkariyam is a beautiful look at how well we know our loved ones. Or not.
Bhuj: The Pride of India takes a real-life human interest drama and turns it into listless and disingenuous cinema.
Rojo takes a still, unnerving look at middle-class society’s human reaction to political turmoil.
No matter how its political stance has morphed in a polarised and acidic world, ‘Munich’ is still chillingly relevant.
‘Haseen Dillruba’ is an uneven, ultimately unsatisfying look at fraught relationships. It falls in love with its own twist much too soon, much too deep.