'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
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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

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

'Aaryan' opens with an ending and spends the rest of its runtime searching for meaning.

'Bison' is among the best films to have been released this year and among the absolute best sports dramas to have emerged from Tamil cinema.

'Diesel' is a film that keeps growing in size without really asking, what is it really that is expanding—the stakes or the world?

Dhanush’s 'Idli Kadai' swings between brilliance and banality, offering both tender, timeless moments and frustratingly overcooked clichés

Choreographer Sathish Krishnan’s debut film does not know what to do with its sweet promise

After a string of forgettable outings, AR Murugadoss stages a return to form with a high-concept thriller where Sivakarthikeyan’s trauma-fuelled action hero meets kickass set-pieces, layered politics, and a dash of old-school mass cinema charm

'Bad Girl' is a terribly narcissistic film—and it might make sense, because it is about a narcissist; but should a film borrow its protagonists’ vices?

In 'Maareesan,' Fahadh Faasil and Vadivelu slip so comfortably into the skin of their characters, that their intentions don’t need to be explained with such a heavy hand to make their actions palpable

Despite its many limitations, 'Maayakoothu' takes you to a new place and leaves you there

“Niceness” in this film begins as an ethic, but soon reveals itself to be a narrative contrivance

What should’ve ideally been an emotionally charged thriller about new parents, and by extension, motherhood, takes on the tone of a dramatised action film.

The film wants to tackle complex interpersonal relationships, but its penchant for melodrama stops it from being something more than a regular and dated outing

There is something bold, naive, hopeful, and tiresome about Abishan Jeevinth's 'Tourist Family' — you can never win against the worn out state, but you can always charm it.

Director Karthik Subbaraj's 'Retro' might not work on all levels, but it’s a film that ends up earning your respect for the wild swings it takes, and for the wilder ways in which it wants to say them.

With long takes and unflinching honesty, Avinash Prakash captures the quiet pain of children navigating a broken home in the shadows of their father's fall from grace.

The Ajith fanboy in Adhik Ravichandran ends up shooting so many references from the star's filmography at us, that he nukes the fourth wall and builds a grand tomb over it in 'Good Bad Ugly'

Director Sashikanth's drama, starring the likes of Madhavan, Nayanthara and Siddharth, gives us a set of fascinating characters, but deserved better writing

'Chithha' writer-director SU Arun Kumar’s latest film goes all-in as an experiment, and delivers some memorable results.









