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'Mindiyum Paranjum' Movie Review: Aparna Balamurali and Unni Mukundan's Long-Distance Relationship Drama is a Thing of Joy

Aparna Balamurali and Unni Mukundan share a joyous chemistry in this intimate take on the long-distance relationship

BY Vishal Menon
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‘45’ Movie Review: A Surreal But Disjointed Take On Karma

Upendra and Shiva Rajkumar add freshness to a genre experiment that ultimately falls flat

BY Sruthi Ganapathy Raman
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‘Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders’ Movie Review: A Cleverly Calibrated Crime Thriller

Honey Trehan’s sequel to 'Raat Akeli Hai' (2020), starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, makes a Knives Out-sized dent in the Hindi genre landscape

BY Rahul Desai
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'Bha Bha Ba' Movie Review: Dileep’s Mass Action Comeback Is Absolute Gibberish

In its effort to create a film that tries to be wild, we’re left feeling like we’re watching gibberish on screen.

BY Vishal Menon
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'The Great Shamsuddin Family' Movie Review: Home Truths and a Fun Ensemble

Two generations of a Muslim family hold the peace—barely—in Anusha Rizvi's sweetly drawn directorial return.

BY Shilajit Mitra
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'Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2' Movie Review: Kapil Sharma Versus The World

Kapil Sharma is once again a man with many wives in this belated sequel; it's satire meets fantasy meets low comedy

BY Shilajit Mitra
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‘Single Papa’ Series Review: Kunal Kemmu's Comedy is a Flimsy Revision of the Man-Child Template

Despite a fun cast, the six-episode Netflix comedy is happy to be a rehashed portrait of single parenthood.

BY Rahul Desai
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'The Devil' Movie Review: Darshan's Film Is Devilishly Dated

Prakash Veer’s Kannada film twists and stretches a half-decent idea into dreadful form.

BY Sruthi Raman
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‘Real Kashmir Football Club’ Series Review: The Sport of Good Storytelling

The eight-episode series, inspired by true events, succeeds at simplifying a modern Kashmir tale through sports, humanity and balanced writing.

BY Rahul Desai
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'Kalamkaval' Movie Review: Mammootty Like Never Before In This Genre-Defining Thriller

Vinayakan is surely the film’s driving force, but Mammootty also shows us a side to him that we haven’t yet witnessed before

BY Vishal Menon
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'Stephen' Movie Review: Explosive Ideas In This Uneven Serial Killer Origin Story

This experiment never devolves into a mere indulgence and director Mithun maintains control over his complex material, even when it looks like it’s slipping away

BY Vishal Menon
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‘Tere Ishk Mein’ Movie Review: When ‘Raanjhanaa’ and ‘Animal’ Enter A Toxic Relationship

Starring Dhanush and Kriti Sanon, Aanand L. Rai’s latest monument to the madness of love is very difficult to sit through.

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Kaisi Ye Paheli’ Movie Review: Technical Glitches Mar A Good One-Liner

Ananyabrata Chakravorty’s small-town whodunnit has the ideas, but fails to contain its excitement.

BY Rahul Desai
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'Victoria' Movie Review: Meenakshi Jayan's Rock-Solid Performance Anchors This Moving Sisterhood Drama 

Written and directed by Sivaranjini, 'Victoria' is a moving drama, peppered with humour.

BY Vishal Menon
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‘Gustaakh Ishq’ Movie Review: Let There Be Poetry

Vibhu Puri’s metrical film pays ode to Sanjay Leela Bhansali, but also becomes its own treaty on the preservation of love and language 

BY Rahul Desai
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'Zootopia 2' Movie Review: Lightning Can Strike Twice

Judy, Nick and a lisping blue viper return in a sequel that’s funnier, warmer and stranger than expected, but in all the right ways.

BY Anushka Halve
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'Eko' Movie Review: One of the Year’s Most Accomplished, Immersive Films

Director Dinjith Ayyathan and screenwriter-cinematographer Bahul Ramesh of 'Kishkindha Kaandam' (2024) are back with another rooted atmospheric thriller

BY Prathyush Parasuraman
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‘Raju Weds Rambai’ Movie Review: Despite A Compelling Core, This Romance Stays Outdated

The Telugu romance attempts to portray the harsh realities of a romance opposed by families. In this pursuit, it forgets to address its own insensitivity.

BY Sruthi Ganapathy Raman
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'Mask' Movie Review: Kavin Headlines This Uneven Ode to Middle-Class Rage

Kavin's comforting screen presence competes with Andrea Jeremiah's chilly gaze in 'Mask'

BY Prathyush Parasuraman
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'Mastiii 4' Movie Review: Eternal Sunshine of the Stunted Male Mind

Milap Zaveri’s latest plays out like a prudish porn fantasy parading as an unwatchable sex comedy.

BY Rahul Desai