Tu Hai Mera Sunday
Through its cross-weave of characters and subplots, Tu Hai Mera Sunday suggests that the spirit of Mumbai isn’t a cliché. All it needs is some space to stretch and kick around a ball or two.
Oct 2017
Chef
Raja Menon’s overstuffed but enjoyable remake of the Hollywood movie has likeable characters and warm performances.
Oct 2017
CRD
...remains audacious throughout, carried along by the top-notch acting and the plethora of surprises that the writers keep throwing at their characters and the viewers.
Sep 2017
Bhoomi
...is your regular rape-revenge drama, but only much louder, with better camerawork and production design.
Sep 2017
Haseena Parkar
In its attempt to valourise Haseena as an innocent victim of destiny, the movie misses the opportunity to add another chapter to the ongoing saga of Dawood Ibrahim and his clan.
Sep 2017
Lucknow Central
...manages to make well-trodden material seem far more interesting than it actually is. Despite its unwieldy length and unconvincing climax, the movie is far superior to the similarly themed August 25 release Qaidi Band, with better developed characters, a better narrative and score and welcome humour.
Sep 2017
Simran
The monomania that characterises Simran – the furtherance of the assertion that Kangana Ranaut can carry off just about anything – dooms the movie to repetition and facetiousness. Ranaut gives the role her all, but her relentless optimism and self-belief in the face of trying circumstances are barely convincing.
Sep 2017
A Gentleman
...is unable to overcome its derivative cool and come up with new ways of reimagining the action comedy.
Aug 2017
Sniff
Sluggishly paced and sketchily written, the movie barely has enough going on to merit 90 minutes of running time.
Aug 2017
Qaidi Band
...is a very earnest and occasionally preachy heart-in-the-right place movie.
Aug 2017
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Bareilly Ki Barfi
...suffers tremendously from tonal inconsistency. It promises a relentlessly eccentric and zany experience, but doesn’t follow its screwball premise all the way through.
Aug 2017
Toilet
...pans out exactly like a public service announcement video produced by Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: it demands attention because of the seriousness of the subject, but makes little effort to engage its intended recipients.
Aug 2017
Jab Harry Met Sejal
If the baseline for Jab Harry Met Sejal is ‘what you seek is seeking you’, then it’s time for Imtiaz Ali to seek a new canvas, because the idea of characters travelling in order to find answers within themselves seems to be suffering from acute jetlag.
Aug 2017
Gurgaon
The movie works best in fits and starts, especially when it lets itself by guided by its richly layered atmospherics.
Aug 2017
Raag Desh
...doesn’t meet the requirements of the historical epic in terms of its production values, but it does match the genre’s basic requirement: the only reason to travel back into the past is to ponder about the present.
Jul 2017
Mubarakan
...the cast assemble and disperse when required, pull faces on demand, and try to keep up with the twists that Mubarakan’s writers conjure up at every bend because somebody on the production thought that it was a good idea to have a 156- minute movie about mixed identities.
Jul 2017
Indu Sarkar
...is a valuable addition to a slim catalogue of films about the excesses of the period even though it lacks the political insights of the better works about the Emergency.
Jul 2017
Munna Michael
The undemanding and unpretentious script races from start to finish, pausing to give Shroff numerous opportunities to display his outstanding dancing and fighting skills.
Jul 2017
Lipstick Under My Burkha
The sexual politics isn’t always on target, but the emphasis on sexual freedom is. The script wobbles as the four tracks evolve and get far too complicated to be smoothly straightened out, but it is at its entertaining best when the women get all hot and heavy.
Jul 2017
Jagga Jasoos
...a zany, warm-hearted and popsicle-bright movie that never loses its infectious spirit of adventure even its most expendable moments.
Jul 2017
Shab
...seems to want to make a grand statement about ambition, migration, exploitation and sexuality, but its scope is limited by the stodgy dialogue, the mostly poor acting (Raveena Tandon has her moments) and incredible levels of contrivance.
Jul 2017
Mom
...comes close to the spirit of the South Korean films by which it has been influenced, even though it is not always able to replicate the fleetness and clarity with which such movies tackle fundamentally sordid material.
Jul 2017
Guest Iin London
When a movie uses flatulence for humour, it is clear that the bar is set very low.
Jul 2017
Tubelight
Tubelight does not have as many layers as Bajrangi Bhaijaan, and Laxman is far too passive, lachrymose and one-dimensional to evoke empathy or identification.
Jun 2017
Bank Chor
...is low on laughs, squanders its potential, and reflects the ineptitude of the heist in question.
Jun 2017
Phullu
If marks were given for good intentions and sincerity, Phullu would top the university. But if marks were also given for presentation and execution, Phullu would be somewhere at the lower levels.
Jun 2017
Raabta
...reincarnates a tried and tested formula without capturing the mystery and sense of aching loss that mark the better entries in the genre. Some experiences don’t last beyond a single lifetime.
Jun 2017