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Cast: Neha Dhupia Ranvir Shorey, Vidhushi Mehra Rated: 4/10 A dark, wannabe thriller the high point of which is Ranvir Shorey
Read moreForce 2: Same old force
Cast: John Abraham, Sonakshi Sinha, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Genelia D’Souza Rated: 6/10 Had Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s unannounced demonetisation drive not been
Read moreFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton Rated: 7/10 It’s 1926 BHP, as in Before Harry
Read moreBilly Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: too long a walk
Cast: Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, Vin Diesel, Steve Martin, Makenzie Leigh Rated: 4/10 War hero Billy
Read moreRock On 2: Angst seldom rocks
Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Shraddha Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli, Prachi Desai Rated: 5/10 Rock stars cannot come with guilt, hang-ups,
Read moreTrolls: A becoming animation
Star Voiceover: Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel, Russell Brand, James Corden, Gwen Stefani Rated: 6/10 First, a becoming soiree on happiness
Read moreDoctor Strange: Cumberbatch not strange enough
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Michael Stuhlbarg Rated: 6/10 Benedict Cumberbatch has many takers in India and that’s
Read moreShivaay: Takes too long to take off
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Sayesha Saigal, Erika Kaar, Abigail Eames, Vir Das, Girish Karnad, Saurabh Shukla Rated: 5/10 Pepperfry or some
Read moreAe Dil Hai Mushkil
Cast: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Fawad Khan, Deepti Naval Rated: 4/10 Why oh why can’t anyone in
Read moreTrain to Busan: Exciting zombie journey
Cast: Gong Yoo, Ma Dong-seok, Jung Yu-mi, Kim Su-an, Kim Eui-sung Rated: 5/10 There are zombies and zombies and zombies in this
Read moreJack Reacher: Never Go Back
Cast: Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Patrick Heusinger Rated: 6/10 Much like Mr Mission Impossible, you can’t view Jack
Read moreINFERNO: Hanks-Irrfan inferno
Cast: Tom Hanks, Irrfan, Felicity Jones, Ben Foster Rated: 6/10 Dan Brown’s movie adaptation of Da Vinci Codewas a washout — a
Read moreTHE GIRL on THE TRAIN
Cast: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans Rated: 7/10 For those who have not read this stunning bestselling
Read moreQueen Of Katwe: Inspiring film on niche sport
Cast: David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong’o, Madina Nalwanga Rated: 6/10 Every once in a while, an inspiring sports film comes along to warm
Read moreMiss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Cast: Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Chris O’Dowd, Judi Dench, Samuel L Jackson Rated: 6/10 It’s thrillingly Tim Burton all the way
Read moreMS Dhoni: The Untold Story — Quite a helicopter shot
Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Anupam Kher, Bhumika Chawla, Kiara Advani, Disha Patani, Rajesh Sharma Rated: 8/10 Neeraj Pandey. Bravo for this well
Read moreTHE DHABA OF AUTHENTIC PUNJAB
Sweety Singh is a down-to-earth ‘true’ Punjabi chef with no cream, colour or kaju to add to his preparations. Punjabi
Read moreStrokes Quite a delivery
Cast voice over: Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, Kelsey Grammer, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Jennifer Aniston Rated: 6/10 Cute as they come, the
Read moreBridget Jones’s Baby
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Emma Thompson Rated: 5.5/10 Dear diary, I met up with Bridget Jones today after many
Read moreThe Magnificent Seven: Not loaded enough
Cast: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung-hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensme Rated: 5/10 One thought magnificent would mean
Read morePINK: A powerful film
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Tapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari, Andrea Tariang, Angad Bedi, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Piyush Mishra Rated: 9/10 You can call it an
Read moreCHIKUNGUNYA OR WHAT?
As Chikungunya rages, turns fatal and makes a mockery of health and hygiene in India’s Capital, MEENAKSHI RAO delves into the disease
Read moreCHIKUNGUNYA: ‘HOMOEOPATHY HAS REMEDY’
Alternative medication has been working on patients gripped by the current strain of chikungunya-like virus. However, MEENAKSHI RAO talks to reputed homoeopath DR
Read moreROBINSON CRUSOE: Good old animation
Cast voice over: Matthias Schweighöfer, Kaya Yanar, Cindy aus Marzahn, Dieter Hallervorden, Aylin Tezel Rated: 7/10 Not the time to release such
Read moreTHE SHALLOWS: A solo gripper
Cast: Blake Lively Rated: 6/10 Shallow is a deep one on will power and fight for survival against all odds, in this,
Read moreRAAZ REBOOT: Same old difference
Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Kriti Kharbanda Gaurav Arora Rated: 5/10 Familiarity breeds contempt but in this case, boredom. As the Bhatt brothers realised,
Read moreBaar Baar Dekho: A patchy romance
Cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Katrina Kaif, Sarika, Ram Kapoor, Sayani Gupta Rated: 5/10 Sidharth Malhotra and Katrina Kaif make for an unusualjodi alright. He
Read moreFreaky Ali: Not freaky enough
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Arbaaz Khan, Amy Jackson, Jas Arora Rated: 5/10 It seems that the director and producers are fans of Nawazuddin
Read moreSully: Complete gripper
Cast: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney Rated: 8/10 It was in 2009 that an American airliner with 130 plus crew
Read moreAkira: Sonakshi all the way
Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Konkona Sen Sharma, Anurag Kashyap Rated: 7/10 Akira is an out-an-out Sonakshi Sinha film and she does her best to
Read moreIsland city: Soulless in Mumbai
Cast: Vinay Pathak, Tanishta Chatterjee, Ashwin Mushran Rated: 5/10 The film is robotic and director Ruchika Oberoi has worked really hard to
Read moreSkiptrace: Same old Chan chant
Cast: Jackie Chan, Fan Bingbing, Johnny Knoxville Rated: 5/10 What do you say about Jackie Chan? His film templates are all the
Read moreDon’t breathe: Literally doesn’t let you breathe
Cast: Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, Stephen Lang Rated: 8/10 Yes, you don’t breathe in this one. Almost all through. Only
Read moreNINE LIVES: Nine lives too short
Cast- Robbie Amell, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Garner Rated- 6/10 If you go in for laughs, this one is not a roller-coaster even
Read moreNine Lives: Nine lives too short
Cast- Robbie Amell, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Garner Rated- 6/10 If you go in for laughs, this one is not a roller-coaster even
Read moreA Flying Jatt: Mildly interesting
Cast- Nathan Jones, Tiger Shroff, Jacqueline Fernandez Rated- 5.5/10 You would have thought, here comes another one of those desi mismatch superheroes who sing,
Read moreWar dogs; War dogs of placid kind
Cast: Jonah Hill, Miles Teller Rated: 5/10 This one was meant to be the big one from Hollywood this week but War
Read morePete’s dragon: It’s cute and engaging
Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, Oona Laurence, Robert Redford Rated: 6/10 Pete’s Dragon, as you must have
Read moreBen-hur: No major splash here
Cast: Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro, Nazanin Boniadi, Ayelet Zurer, Morgan Freeman Rated: 5/10 The first time I saw Ben
Read moreHappy Bhaag Jayegi: Happy film to go to
Cast: Diana Penty, Abhay Deol, Jimmy Shergill, Ali Fazal, Momal Sheikh Rated: 6.5/10 The very Punjabi runaway bride is on a romp
Read moreMohenjo daro: An expansive waste
Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Pooja Hegde, Kabir Bedi, Nitish Bharadwaj, Arunoday Singh, Suhasini Mulay Rated: 4/10 If there was ever an
Read moreRustom: Akshay all the way
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Ileana D’Cruz, Arjan Bajwa, Esha Gupta Rated: 7/10 The Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati saga was so compelling on
Read moreJason Bourne: The ultimate thrille
Cast: Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, Julia Stiles Rated: 8.7/10 Edgy, accelerative at all times, merging
Read moreSuicide Squad: Bad is beautiful
Cast: Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman Rated: 6/10 The bad men and women are at the helm
Read moreM Cream: Ripple-less journey for youth
Cast: Imaad Shah, Ira Dubey, Tom Alter, Barry John, Auritra Ghosh Rated: 4/10 Film festival movies work under a certain veneer of
Read moreLights Out: Scary as usual
Cast: Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Alexander DiPersia, Billy Burke, Rated: 5/10 Scary, screamy and totally engrossing, this tale of a bad
Read moreStar Trek Beyond: Final frontier is as engaging
Cast: John Cho, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Idris Elba Rated: 6/10 Good, old Star
Read moreMadaari: Irrfan all the way
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Vishesh Bansal, Jimmy Shergill, Tushar Dalvi, Nitesh Pandey Rated: 6/10 Irrfan and the common man cause make for an
Read moreKabali: Kabali is a bore & Rajni limited
Cast: Rajnikanth, Winston Chao, Radhika Apte Rated: 5/10 As I write, Kabali has already become a box office superhit. Holidays have been announced, shows
Read moreIce Age: Collision Course –cute mammoth journey
Cast (voice over): Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Simon Pegg, Jennifer Lopez, Queen Latifah Rated: 5/10 I have loved Ice Age and
Read moreGreat Grand Masti: Disgustingly unhappening
Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Riteish Deshmukh, Aftab Shivdasani, Urvashi Rautela Rated: 2/10 It is an insult to the reviewer to actually waste newsprint
Read moreDIPA VAULTS TO GLORY
Never mind Dipa Karmakar. You did not get a medal at the Rio Olympics but you did the impossible. At
Read moreSultan: Wholesome entertainer
Cast : Salman Khan, Anushka Sharma, Randeep Hooda, Amit Sadh Rated : 7/10 First things first. The much-touted briefer than
Read moreThe Secret Life of Pets: This one is petilicious
Cast (voice): Louis CK, Eric Stonestreet, Tara Strong, Ellie Kemper, Hannibal Buress Rated: 6/10 There are dog people. And then,
Read moreFree State of Jones: A real take on America history
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Keri Russell Rated: 4/10 This one from the American Civil War and on one Mr
Read moreThe Legend of Tarzan: Complicated legend
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou, Jim Broadbent, Christoph Waltz Rated: 5/10 This one from Warner Brothers is
Read moreShorgul: Loud and unclear about what it wants
Cast: Jimmy Shergill, Ashutosh Rana, Sanjay Suri, Narendra Jha, Suha Gezen Rated: 6/10 Those from Uttar Pradesh, be it in the 70s
Read moreIndependence day — Resurgence: Big, yet not great
Cast: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Jessie T Usher, Bill Pullman Rated: 6/10 It’s much too familiar if you can jog back your
Read moreRaman Raghav 2.0: Showcase of depravity
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal, Shobhita Dhuliwala Rated: 6/10 No one showcases depravities of the human mind as graphically as Anurag Kashyap. Raman
Read moreCentral Intelligence: Passable action comedy
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart Rated: 6/10 It’s around The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) and its all flabby but funny. It’s also around
Read moreFinding Dory: Perfect holiday film
Cast: (voices) Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Hayden Rolence Rated: 7/10 It’s rare if you can raise a finger against Disney/Pixar when it
Read moreNow You See Me 2: Magic, not all the way
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Daniel Radcliffe, Morgan Freeman Rated: 6/10 As a sequel, this magic heist is,
Read moreDhanak: Good old simple Kukunoor
Cast: Hetal Gadda, Krrish Chhabria, Vipin Sharma, Gulfam Khan, Vibha Chibber Rated: 6/10 Simple, uncomplicated and very much Kukunoor,Dhanak is a straightforward tale
Read moreUdta Punjab: This is no fuddu (loser) film
Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Diljit Dosanjh Rated: 9/10 Udta Punjab is so crazed, crass and coked up that, like an
Read moreThe Conjuring 2: It’s real and very spooky
Cast: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Frances O’Connor, Madison Wolfe Rated: 7/10 It’s back, that scary movie which curdles your blood
Read moreDo Lafzon Ki Kahani: Too sobby for Hooda
Cast: Randeep Hooda, Kajal Aggarwal Rated: 4/10 This too is a Korean remake, though totally divorced from the viability of
Read moreTe3n: A slow gripper
Cast : Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vidya Balan Rated: 7/10 To state anything more than the fact that this film is
Read moreWarcraft: It’s big, bad and beastly
Cast: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster Rated: 7/10 Big screen fantasies with bigger CGIs and VFX have steadily become
Read moreTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the shadows
Cast: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Laura Linney, Stephen Amell, Brian Tee Rated: 5/10 Marvel has been the centrepiece this year with a
Read moreThe nice guys: Nice but differently
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley, Kim Basinger Rated: 6/10 It’s the 70s, flary booms, long locks, a lot
Read moreHousefull 3: Laughter challenged
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh, Jaqueline Fernandes, Nargis Fakhri, Lisa Haydon, Boman Irani Rated: 4/10 You expect the kitsch. You
Read moreX-Men: Apocalypse : Packed with mutant wonders
Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult Rated: 6/10 For all those mutant humdingers, X-Men are here and
Read moreSarbjit: Call it Dalbir not Sarbjit
Cast: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Randeep Hooda, Richa Chadda, Darshan Kumaar Rated: 5/10 The story of Sarbjit Singh Aitwal, the real one,
Read moreAzhar: A mishmash of reality
azhar Cast : Emraan Hashmi, Prachi Desai, Nargis Fakhri, Lara Dutta Rated: 5.5/10 This week, there is a Pele on one
Read morePele: Needed some more depth
Cast: Vincent D’Onofrio, Rodrigo Santoro, Diego Boneta, Colm Meaney, Kevin de Paula Rated: 6/10 Pele’s iconic stature cannot but make
Read moreMy big fat greek wedding 2: Eat, stalk and love family
Cast: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan Rated: 5.5/10 They have aged. They have become crazier. And they
Read moreCriminal: Arresting memory transplant
Cast: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds, Jordi Mollà Rated: 6/10 Big names, big imagination and good
Read moreDear Dad: Swamy a delight, film not so much
Cast: Arvind Swamy, Himanshu Sharma, Ekavalli Khanna Rated: 5/10 More than anything else, even more than the serious subject this
Read moreMoney Monster: A limited thriller
Cast: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell, Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe Rated: 6/10 Julia Roberts and George Clooney. You would
Read moreOne Night Stand: Leone’s film out-an-out
Cast : Sunny leone, Tanuj Virvani, Nyra Banerjee, Narendra Jetley, Khalid Siddiqui Rated: 5.5/10 You would have thought this one to
Read moreTraffic: Good intention, slim execution
Cast : Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Shergill, Divya Dutta, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Kitu Gidwani, Vishal Singh, Sachin Khedekar Rated: 5/10 Well,
Read moreBaaghi: Tiger;s body is the works
Cast: Tiger Shroff, Shraddha Kapoor, Sudheer Babu, Paras Arora, Sunil Grover Rated: 7/10 That’s the rating for Tiger Shroff, not the
Read moreMOTHER’S DAY: Some moms don’t have them
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, JUlia Roberts, Kate Hudson, Jason Sudeikis, Britt Robertson, Timothy Loyphant Rated: 4.5/10 For a film that has a groovy,
Read more10 Cloverfield Lane: Gripper of the week
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher, Jr. Rated: 8/10 As thrillers go, this one is a genius of the genre
Read moreThe Man Who Knew Infinity
THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY Cast: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise Rated: 7/10 Srinivasa Ramanujan was just 32 when he fell
Read moreThe Huntsman: winter’s war — not a patch on original
Cast : Chris Hemsworth, Conrad Khan, Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain, Niamh Walter Rated: 4.5/10 After Snowhite and the Huntsman, here comes
Read moreLaal Rang: For Hooda buffs
Cast: Randeep Hooda, Pia Bajpai, Akshay Oberoi, Meenakshi Dixit, Rajneesh Duggal Rated: 5/10 Blood theft is a serious, a life taking crime;
Read moreSanta Banta Pvt Ltd: Undiluted, boring kitsch
Cast : Boman Irani, Vir Das, Neha Dhupia, Lisa Hayden, Johnny Lever, Ram Kapoor, Vijay Raaz, Vrajesh Hirjee, Sanjay Mishra Rated :
Read moreNil Battey Sannata: Endearing, real and simple
Cast : Swara Bhaskar, Ratna Pathak Shah, Pankaj Tripathi Rated : 8/10 Nil Battey Sannata is a confusing title but an endearing,
Read moreFAN: Mature, syrupy SRK
Cast : Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Amin, Yogendra Tiku, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Waluscha de Sousa, Sayani Gupta Rated: 8/10 Here comes Fan.
Read moreThe Jungle Book: Head for this jungle please
Cast: Neel Sethi, voices of Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson Rated: 9/10 This one is perfect to
Read moreDemolition – A hatke drama
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, Judah Lewis Rated: 6/10 Relationship status: Complicated. That’s what you will say about this “comedy
Read moreICCWorld Twenty20: Windies bundle out India
MUMBAI: Without a contribution from Chris Gayle, running high on the blades of Lendl Simmons, J Charles and Andre Russell
Read moreICCWorld Twenty20: Yuvi out, India hurt
It’s bad news for Team India. An injured Yuvraj Singh is out of the T20 World Cup at the extremely
Read moreICCWorld Twenty20: The Mumbai Blockbuster
West Indies are dangerous, unpredictable, explosive in fits and starts and have among their ranks the single most potent match
Read moreICCWorld Twenty 20: The big tear upfront
Kohli apart, there are a host of issues that the Indian batting needs to tackle India may well have been
Read moreICC World Twenty20: Dazzling Kohli steers India into semis
Virat-Dhoni 67-run partnership knocks off Australia in 160-run chase MOHALI: Kohli — Virat, dependable, unstoppable, undaunted. MS Dhoni – cool,
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