Ignore the weird duets and the weakly developed characters, and you’re left with a watchable thriller When director Andrew Louis tweeted on Thursday night that […]
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‘NGK’ Movie Review: Suriya Is Wasted In This Incoherent Film
And why, why is Sai Pallavi reduced to, bizarrely, a sniffer in this movie? Nandha Gopalan Kumaran (NGK), an extremely committed Suriya, is drenched in […]
Continue reading‘Mr Local’ Review: A 155-Minute Primer On Everything Wrong With Tamil Cinema
This Sivakarthikeyan-Nayanthara starrer is a sexist, misogynistic, transphobic cesspool of abuse passing for love. Mr. Local, Sivakarthikeyan and Nayanthara’s summer release directed by Rajesh M, […]
Continue reading‘K13’ Movie Review: This Thriller Shows Promise But Lets Down Its Viewers
‘K13’ Movie Review: This Thriller Shows Promise But Lets Down Its Viewers The Arulnithi-Shraddha Srinath starrer comes across as a vacuous idea that desperately wants […]
Continue reading‘Mehandi Circus’ Review: A Grandpa’s Tale That Leaves You Wanting More
The Ilaiyaraaja nostalgia and Shweta Tripathi’s acting are the highlights of this choppy tale of love and loss. Mehandi Circus opens with an animated folktale […]
Continue reading‘Super Deluxe’ Review: This Delightfully Layered Movie Is A Treat For All Your Senses
Samantha, Fahadh Faasil and Ashwanth shine in Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s colourful, intelligent film. If a spaceship landed some place in Tamil Nadu and aliens wandered into […]
Continue reading‘Airaa’ Review: Even Twice The Nayanthara Isn’t Enough To Save This Film
As a writer, my worst nightmare is the lede. How does one start writing something instantly hooking the reader into my world? I’ve not figured […]
Continue reading‘Ispade Rajavum Idhaya Raniyum’ Wants Us To Empathise With A Toxic, Violent Man
Ranjit Jeyakodi’s film is perfectly in line with recent ‘toxic male’ films like ‘Arjun Reddy’, ‘Kaatru Veliyidai’ and ‘Taramani’. There is a scene in Ispade […]
Continue reading’90ML’ Review: This Is A Film I’m Glad Exists, But I Wouldn’t Recommend Anyone To Watch It
“Ambalainga panra ellaa ketta vishayathayum panradhillai penniyam” (Doing all bad things that men do is not feminism), they say. 90ML argues that, this is, in […]
Continue reading‘LKG’ Review: Kindergarten-Level Primer On Tamil Nadu Politics, Society, Cinema, And Youth
Is it satire? Is it serious? Or is it RJ Balaji’s stepping stone into politics? Nobody knows, not even the filmmakers, it would appear. LKG […]
Continue reading‘Oru Adaar Love’ Review: Misogyny in slow motion
Do you remember the viral song from Oru Adaar Love where Priya Prakash Varrier and Roshan Abdul Rahoof make eyes at each other in slow […]
Continue reading‘Sarvam Thaala Mayam’ Review: An almost-but-not-yet film that relies on the largesse of upper caste hearts to bring about social change.
Sarvam Thaala Mayam is less a story of hope against all odds than it is one of faith in the innate goodness of people, democracy […]
Continue reading‘Simba’ Review: A Wannabe Stoner Film That Is Your Regular, Misogynistic Sausage Fest
Simba isn’t hinged on a story, but relies on stoner tropes, mind-voice, gimmicks and monologues to keep going. In the Tamil film Simba, the character […]
Continue reading‘Viswasam’ Review: Nayanthara Should Be The Hero Of This Ajith-Starrer
Viswasam: An inadvertently thoughtful film Star vehicles in Tamil aren’t just films. They are complex potpourri of elements with economic, political, social and cultural (mis)guidances […]
Continue reading‘Petta’ Review: Except Rajinikanth, The Film Has Nothing Going For It
Dek: It’s an ode to Rajinikanth’s superstardom, but has a flimsy storyline, or space for other actors. Five minutes into Petta, a friend who was […]
Continue reading‘Maari 2’ Review: Perfect Candidate For Your Sunday Matinee
Maari 2 is the perfect candidate for your Sunday matinee, post Andhra Meals. It might even help reduce Monday morning blues.
Continue reading‘Seethakaathi’ Review: Vijay Sethupathi’s Comedy-Drama Is Unlike Any Tamil Film You’ve Seen In 2018
Sethakaathi isn’t a regular 2018 Tamil film, it’s certainly not an easy watch. For the attention-deficit generation, Seethakaathi’s first 45 minutes are a test, but when you […]
Continue reading‘Thuppakki Munai’ Review: Vikram Prabhu’s Film Is Unremarkable
I can imagine how this film might have looked on paper: an encounter cop, a young girl’s grieving father and a migrant worker lose everything […]
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