Reviews
Now Streaming: After Life Review
Between all the melancholic musings and suicidal suggestions, After Life turns out to be quite an uplifting experience
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Nedunalvaadai Movie Review: A Tearjerker That Tries A Bit Too Hard
Despite the earnest performances, there’s not much one feels for this film because of the masochistic nature of its leads
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Milan Talkies Movie Review: A Messy, Greedy Love Story That Illustrates Its Director’s Penchant For Excesses
The film is a choppy all-in-one fare with a distinct lack of soul, not to mention the shameless product placement, pointless side characters and noisy songs
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Ispade Rajavum Idhaya Raniyum Movie Review: A Misconceived Romance That Tries To Be So Hip And Cool, It’s Painful
There’s no inner life. There’s no truth. Everything feels fake in this stab at a jagged, modern-day romance
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Hamid Movie Review: An Endearingly Simple, If Slightly Simplistic, Depiction Of Childhood Trauma
There is plenty of sad-violin music and stilted acting, but the sheer clarity of the analogies – of mortality, divinity, closure – rescues Hamid
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Photograph Movie Review: A Tender, Meditative, Poetic Film
The film is so quiet and so still in some parts, that you will get impatient. But it is evocative and its tenderness will stay with you
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Sathru Movie Review: Rough Around The Edges, But A Thrilling Cat-And-Mouse Game
It’s not a film that’s just about the hero…it’s as much about his enemy and his family
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Boomerang Movie Review: A Drama About A Face Transplant Makes You Wish For A Screenplay Transplant Instead
What promised to be pulpy fun turns into a dully earnest story about river-linking
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Badla Movie Review: A Nicely Paced Thriller That Isn’t As Smart As It Wants To Look
A film which thrives on creating an illusion that the narrative is constantly one step ahead of the audience when it actually isn’t
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Badla Movie Review: Watchable, But Not Essential Viewing
Nothing is what it seems and there are many turns, but the film isn’t as clever as it thinks it is
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Sparsh Short Film Review: A Preachy Premise That Is Rescued By Its Exemplary Lead Actor
A 15-minute short that feels like a different (read better) film when Kay Kay Menon is on screen
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Made In Heaven Review: A Richly Observed Portrait Of Urban India Through The Lens Of Its Wedding Ecosystem
The series may hinge on the outsiders, but it’s the compassionate gaze of the insiders that sets it apart
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