Set in the early ’80s, the retro setting and the freshness of the idea of an income tax raid of mammoth proportions made Raj Kumar Gupta’s 2018 film Raid a passable watch with some sporadic moments of smart heroism. It had a structure where the hero met the villain in the beginning, and then it… Continue reading Raid 2 Review | Ajay Devgn Starrer Is a Forgettable Rehash With a Scaled-up Setting
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Tourist Family Review | A Typical Goodness Package With Some Clever Practical Tweaks
Tourist Family, the new Tamil film written and directed by debutant Abishan Jeevinth, is not a film that breaks any conventions to create a feel-good movie. Abishan follows a very familiar style of building various subplots that will have a payoff at a later stage. But he is very aware of the kind of cliched… Continue reading Tourist Family Review | A Typical Goodness Package With Some Clever Practical Tweaks
Thunderbolts Review | Marvel’s Version of Inside Out Might Actually Pull It Out of Its Creative Depression
One of the things that I liked about the Marvel cinematic universe in its initial phases was the fact that they were willing to reinvent. The reason why they had that edge in the superhero genre was because they were able to identify the burnout people used to feel about this particular genre. So, before… Continue reading Thunderbolts Review | Marvel’s Version of Inside Out Might Actually Pull It Out of Its Creative Depression
Retro Review | This Laughter-Rebellion Tale From Karthik Subbaraj Is an Uneven Gangster Drama
Revolt is something we have seen in the last Karthik Subbaraj directorial, Jigarthanda DoubleX. The climax of that movie sort of captured the essence of the rebellion with those spectacular visuals. His latest film, Retro, has a thematic similarity in terms of the story’s structure with the second Jigarthanda film. But Karthik is trying to… Continue reading Retro Review | This Laughter-Rebellion Tale From Karthik Subbaraj Is an Uneven Gangster Drama
Jewel Thief Review | The Real Heist Is Somebody Convinced Netflix to Buy This Film
Even though Jewel Thief, the new Saif Ali Khan starrer, was released as an OTT original, when you watch the movie, you can clearly see that it had a theatrical design. The way the title cards are shown, the broad stroke writing, the end credit song, etc., gives you that idea, and the movie even… Continue reading Jewel Thief Review | The Real Heist Is Somebody Convinced Netflix to Buy This Film
Ground Zero Review | A Much-Needed, Less-Jingoistic Perspective Let Down by Hammy Writing
Ground Zero, the latest Bollywood film based on real-life military operations, comes at a time when the nation is mourning the loss of the lives of those tourists in Pahalgam. The release date of the film being this Friday is purely coincidental, and perhaps this timing sort of works in favor of the movie as… Continue reading Ground Zero Review | A Much-Needed, Less-Jingoistic Perspective Let Down by Hammy Writing
Thudarum Review | A Well-Tailored Fan Service — Not for the Star, but for the Actor
The initial portions of the latest Tharun Moorthy film, Thudarum, are very simple, similar to something like Drishyam, where you see the banter-humor between the characters played by Mohanlal and Shobana. And in those areas, there are far too many references to Mohanlal’s movies, but with a trolling sense of humor. The mention of the… Continue reading Thudarum Review | A Well-Tailored Fan Service — Not for the Star, but for the Actor
Padakkuthira Review | A Lame Investigative Thriller Filled With Forgettable Comedic Gags
The idea of the new Malayalam movie Padakkuthira is so outdated and slim that it almost felt like a script Udaykrishna – Sibi K Thomas would have rejected twenty years ago. This is a movie that is supposed to be an investigative journalism thriller. But the substance in this cliched story is so minimal that… Continue reading Padakkuthira Review | A Lame Investigative Thriller Filled With Forgettable Comedic Gags