Mehandi Circus Movie Review: A Not-Bad Romance That Wants To Be An Epic But Falls Short
The romantic track lacks the little “nothing” moments that made something like ‘Kadhal’ so special.
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Kanchana 3 Movie Review: Raghava Lawrence Busts Our Eardrums In The Most Tiresome Entry In The ‘Kanchana’ Franchise
Is it too much to ask a horror-comedy to have some quality horror and some quality comedy?
Gangs Of Madras Movie Review: CV Kumar’s Second Film Is A Pretty Decent Heroine-oriented Thriller
The film feels fresh because it filters the vigilante angle through the prism of a gangster saga
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Watchman Movie Review: GV Prakash Gets Help From A Golden Retriever In An Unsatisfying Thriller
The broad ‘Benji’-style cuteness is at odds with the claustrophobic ‘Panic Room’-style chiller the director is going for
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Uriyadi 2 Movie Review: A Loud Mix Of Political Ideology And Heroism, With Flashes Of Brilliance
As a sequel, the film has to count as a disappointment, but as a standalone movie, it’s not bad
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Natpe Thunai Movie Review: A Loud, Choppy Sports Movie That Wants To Be Both Drama And Comedy
Everything is meticulously unconstructed. Actors appear to have been roped in just because they have name-recognition value
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Tribute: J Mahendran, Who Began His Directing Career With The Rajinikanth-starring ‘Mullum Malarum’
From the high melodrama of ‘Thanga Pathakkam’ to the subtleties of ‘Uthiri Pookkal’, his filmography saw it all
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Lucifer Movie Review: A High-minded Political Actioner That’s Content With Low-hanging Fruit
The first half is really tedious, but the second half is a little more fun. It’s pulpier, more shameless
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Super Deluxe Movie Review: A Unique, Ambitious, Insanely Detailed, Blessedly Amoral Drama That’s As Epic As It Is Intimate
Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s spectacular second film lives up to the hype – but you may want to watch it first before reading a single review
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Airaa Movie Review: In A Double Role, Nayanthara Gives Half A Good Performance In An Underwhelming Ghost Story
It’s a good idea, in theory, to delay the revelations, to keep us guessing, but there’s nothing else to hold on to
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Southern Lights: On ‘June’ And The Pleasures Of Even Not-So-Great Malayalam Cinema
The detailing seems to come less from a screenwriting manual than from someone’s life
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Samantha Akkineni Interview With Baradwaj Rangan
Super Deluxe actress Samantha talks about her Instagram account, working with Thiagarajan Kumararaja and that phase of “just being” in front of the camera