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2/5
Aadu 3 (2026) Anandu Suresh Although crafted by Midhun Manuel Thomas himself, the creator of the franchise, the movie comes across as an amateurish fan-fiction, with the soul of the original completely missing.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Ustaad Bhagat Singh (2026) Yashaswini Sri If you are a Pawan Kalyan loyalist, there is enough here for you. If you are not, this one tests your patience and yields nothing.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Dhurandhar (2025) Shubhra Gupta The extreme violence in the first part left us so numb, that nothing in the second — not even the most vicious ploy which ends with a limbless body being blown up in smithereens, or even a severed head being kicked — can shock us.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Made in Korea (2026) Yashaswini Sri On paper, this is a premise with real emotional potential. In practice, the film delivers on some of that promise and quietly squanders the rest.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Shalini Langer The Bride! too works the best when it is not trying too hard.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Hoppers (2026) Shalini Langer The hopper doth hop too much. This latest Pixar animation is a frenzied exploration of an idea that could have been told ever so simply, with not much humour or a catchy song or two to lift it.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Mrithyunjay (2026) Yashaswini Sri It is controlled, confident in its genre, and anchored by a Sree Vishnu performance that deserves to be seen. But it is also a film that sets up a more satisfying conclusion than it is willing to deliver.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Subedaar (2026) Shubhra Gupta Subedaar reminds me of the kind of old-fashioned crime thriller fronted by a hero clashing with the corrupt system, and individuals, that used to give mainstream Bollywood its heft.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Thaai Kizhavi (2026) Yashaswini Sri Thaai Kizhavi is a well-written, well-acted rural entertainer that works as a comedy drama, and leaves you thinking a little after the credits roll. Radikaa Sarathkumar reminds everyone why she belongs at the center of a film.
Posted Feb 27, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Accused (2026) Shubhra Gupta But the writing offers us little depth, and that’s where this film, which had the potential to be a humdinger, falls flat.
Posted Feb 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Pennum Porattum (2026) Anandu Suresh Pennum Porattum, despite its flaws and shortcomings, also stands as a testament to the power of a director’s conviction.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Suanshu Khurana At a time when AI can create almost anything musically, one sees Elvis Presley, this raw, brilliant musician in this concert film, as a reminder of what we’ve lost. And how there would never be another Elvis.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Bluff (2026) Alaka Sahani The Bluff starts with the promise of being an entertaining action drama, but it ends up as a period action piece that could have packed a punch.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Shalini Langer ...the back stories of each are more compelling than the film’s ultimate premise of saving the world from itself. So good luck to all you viewers, and have fun. The “don’t die” part is not worth dying for.
Posted Feb 21, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
GOAT (2026) Shalini Langer So what is GOAT aiming to be? A film for children about dreaming big or a film for adults about aiming big? The confusion is apparent.
Posted Feb 21, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Do Deewane Seher Mein (2026) Shubhra Gupta Chaturvedi’s side-part is a bit distracting, but he makes up for it by making his Shashank likeable, not succumbing to an easy cop-out. But as far as rom coms go, Do Deewane is just not deewana enough.
Posted Feb 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Hey Bhagawan (2026) Yashaswini Sri The first half is fun, Naresh is excellent, and there are enough laughs to keep things moving. It is when the film tries to become more emotionally significant that it runs into trouble.
Posted Feb 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Assi (2026) Shubhra Gupta Assi has flaws, but is never not an urgent, imperative call to arms. Watch it.
Posted Feb 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Miss Shetty Mr Polishetty (2023) Raghu Bandi Nirav Shah’s camera work is a visual treat. The production value is top-notch. A couple of songs by Radhan are good.
Posted Feb 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Couple Friendly (2026) Yashaswini Sri The second half could have been smoother, and the tonal shift might not work for everyone. But it has heart, strong performances (especially from Manasa Varanasi), and enough genuine moments to overcome its flaws.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
O' Romeo (2026) Shubhra Gupta But the thing with building your scaffold on style and swag is that you end up skating on thin substance, and this reunion of Bharadwaj with Shahid Kapoor...is left swinging between highs and lows.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Tu Yaa Main (2026) Shubhra Gupta Much of the first half feels like we’ve seen it before, and we have, in Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy...
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Wuthering Heights (2026) Shalini Langer Had all this tinkering even added something to the story, Fennell could have been pardoned for giving a shot at a novel that is notoriously hard to adapt due to its changes of tone, and its refusal to give a crowd-pleasing ending to Cathy and Heathcliff..
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Ashakal Aayiram (2026) Swaroop Kodur As much as the first half sails smoothly, the second half comes undone because of unimaginative writing that veers prominently towards melodrama.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Anomie (2026) Swaroop Kodur What the film ends up being is routine at best, with a few dashes of genuine curiosity. It’s rather like a meal that underwhelms with its main course so as to hype up its dessert; it sounds intriguing, but that approach rarely works, does it?
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
With Love (2026) Yashaswini Sri With Love is the kind of film that won’t blow you away with spectacle, but it will sit quietly in your chest for days afterward.
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Euphoria (2026) Yashaswini Sri This is a film with an iron spine. It picks a stance on every issue it raises and never deviates from it, not for commercial convenience, not for audience comfort.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Scarlet (2025) Alaka Sahani Even though the film’s detailed aesthetic that blends traditional hand-drawn animation with 3D CG, is brilliant, the intense narrative feels crowded with too many elements.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Vadh 2 (2026) Shubhra Gupta While veterans Gupta and Mishra, as well as the other Mishra, do their job like the seasoned actors they are, the others manage to leave a mark, even if you are left wondering just why a cop’s chiselled chest is given a whole scene to itself.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Prakambanam (2026) Anandu Suresh While the film is partly fun — thanks in particular to the impressive way in which Vijesh has extracted chaos from the scenarios — Prakambanam is one of those movies that has too many problematic layers beneath its glossy, hilarious surface.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Gandhi Talks (2026) Shubhra Gupta The better bits are in the first half; post-interval, all is a confused slump, weighed down by an inordinately long passage with the rich guy, poor fellow and the grinning thief skulking about without any discernible purpose.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Shelter (2026) Shalini Langer Nothing is particularly bad; but nothing is particularly striking either.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Valathu Vashathe Kallan (2026) Anandu Suresh Valathu Vashathe Kallan offers decisive proof that Jeethu Joseph isn’t called out enough for slipping in crimes against women...into his movies all too casually, seemingly because he or his writer(s) couldn’t come up with anything else.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Mardaani 3 (2026) Shubhra Gupta ...the eagerness to frame Mukerji centre-stage– literally in more than one scene– dulls the rest of the enterprise.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Send Help (2026) Shalini Langer McAdams gets a film that lets all aspects of her shine, without no distractions of any sort.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Baby Girl (2026) Anandu Suresh The shallowness in the screenplay of director Arun Varma’s Baby Girl is evident right from the beginning, as it’s marred by convenient plot devices and a tendency to stretch things beyond the limit.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Cheekatilo (2026) Swaroop Kodur ...[Cheekatilo] neither attempts to chart a new path for itself nor does it work neatly within the genre conventions, leaving behind an uninspired, cliche-ridden effort.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Magic Mushrooms (2026) Anandu Suresh One of the major shortcomings of Magic Mushrooms is Nadirshah’s direction, and his frequent attempts to slip in humour at odd and unwanted junctures, complicated further by his inability to ensure subtle portrayals.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Mercy (2026) Shubhra Gupta The story-telling is flat; so is everyone on screen.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The History of Sound (2025) Shalini Langer This film, adapted by Ben Shattuck from a pair of his own short stories, gives the two actors nothing to do but look lovingly at each other – and, at brief respites, at other people.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Shalini Langer To say [the film is] about ping pong, wouldn’t do it full justice. For, this Josh Safdie film does jump and loop, blaze and smash like the sport’s furious pings and pongs. But none of it would matter without Timothée Chalamet.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Border 2 (2026) Shubhra Gupta ...Border 2 holds on to the soul and spirit of the original, while giving us a much bigger canvas, showing conflict not just on land and air, but also water.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Chatha Pacha: The Ring of Rowdies (2026) Anandu Suresh While it stitches together intriguing individual moments, the script rarely offers narrative cohesiveness.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) Shalini Langer So, should we care [about the film]? Only if you want to see Gerard Butler do his braveheart thing again, and a teary Morena Baccarin play the second fiddle, and son Nathan tag along, being alternatively hugged and asked “Are you okay?”
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Chronology of Water (2025) Shalini Langer The fact that [the film] works, to a degree, is thanks to Poots, whose commitment to Lidia’s self-flagellation and self-destruction is total.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Shalini Langer ...as a placeholder for another sequel, The Bone Temple is just the right amount of modest — taking the story forward and giving its characters a developmental arc.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos (2026) Shubhra Gupta The trouble with so many ideas jostling in the film, written by Das and Amogh Ranadive, is that very little gets to breathe. Just as something is about to settle in, off it darts in another direction.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Anaganaga Oka Raju (2026) Swaroop Kodur The gags continue to occur timely, but the stakes never really feel significant.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Vaa Vaathiyaar (2025) Anandu Suresh Vaa Vaathiyaar’s story is essentially something an overreactive, verbose friend of ours might blurt out during a drinking session.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Bhartha Mahasayulaku Wignyapthi (2026) Swaroop Kodur There are a few crude and lewd jokes that should have been done away with, but if it wasn’t for the collective, comedic effort, Bhartha Mahasayulaku Wignyapthi would have sunk much earlier.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
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