Movie Review: News
02 Jul 2023
Hollywood#NewsBytesRecommends: 'Last Night in Soho'—electric thriller fueled by spirited performances
Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho (2021), starring Anna Taylor-Joy (The Queen's Gambit), Matt Smith (The Crown), and Thomasin McKenzie (Old), is an electric film painted in bright, rich, neon colors and tells a tale of a woman's life ripped apart at the seams by incessant exploitation in the prostitution industry.
29 Jun 2023
Kiara Advani#SatyapremKiKatha review: Kiara Advani's 'Katha' is the real star here
Kiara Advani and Kartik Aaryan's festive release, Satyaprem Ki Katha is the latest that Bollywood has to offer to the theater-going audience.
29 Jun 2023
Netflix#LustStories2Review: Barring Sujoy Ghosh's segment, the anthology is tedious, flat
Lust Stories 2 hit Netflix on Thursday. It features four stories directed by R Balki, Konkona Sen Sharma, Sujoy Ghosh, and Amit Ravindernath Sharma, and explores the themes of sexual liberation, infidelity, and passionate romance.
25 Jun 2023
Netflix#NewsBytesRecommends: 'Hamid' on Netflix—both heartwarming and heartbreaking in equal parts
Aijaz Khan's Hamid, available on Netflix, is a story about a seven-year-old who speaks to God and begs him for days on end to send his father back to him.
24 Jun 2023
NetflixPride Special: Why 'Schitt's Creek's David-Patrick remain iconic queer couple
Netflix's Schitt's Creek is a hug-shaped heartwarming drama, a rare project that can boast about getting everything right.
23 Jun 2023
Amazon Prime Video#TikuWedsSheru review: Inexplicably chaotic film doesn't know where to go
Sai Kabir's Tiku Weds Sheru was released on Amazon Prime Video on Friday.
23 Jun 2023
Sharman Joshi'Kafas' review: Edgy, hard-hitting, and thrilling watch
SonyLIV's latest offering is the Sharman Joshi and Mona Singh-led Kafas, a web series that premiered on Friday. The social drama series has picked up the sensitive topic of child abuse mixed with many other factors prevalent in society, only to present a hard-hitting reality.
18 Jun 2023
Netflix#NewsBytesRecommends: 'Cinema Bandi'—of dreams, hopes, filmmaking ambitions
There are some films that soar high due to their cast, relentless promotion, jaw-dropping budget, and stupendous locations.
17 Jun 2023
Pride MonthPride Special: 'Two Little Boys'—short film about repercussions of homophobia
Two Little Boys is a short film available on YouTube about the repressed emotions of a gay teenager and his violent encounter with the boy he is in love with.
16 Jun 2023
Adipurush'Adipurush' review: Even gods would demand answers from shoddy adaptation
Om Raut's Adipurush, perhaps an unintentional cross between live-action and animation, has finally been released five months later than its original schedule.
15 Jun 2023
Ezra Miller'The Flash' review: Even Batmen can't save Ezra's double-role disaster
David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery termed The Flash as the "best superhero movie" he ever saw. Sure, the early reviews during the CinemaCon screening in April generated excitement around the Ezra Miller starrer, but it's far from meeting expectations.
11 Jun 2023
YouTube#NewsBytesRecommends: 'Authohead' on YouTube—auto driver's heightened nihilism, coupled with megalomania
Rohit Mittal's Autohead utilizes the popular genre of mockumentary and digs its claws into multiple problems permeating urban India: caste, class, xenophobia, and the intersection of nihilism-existential crisis.
10 Jun 2023
Vijay SethupathiPride Special: Revisiting Vijay Sethupathi's transgender character from 'Super Deluxe'
The 2019 Tamil film Super Deluxe assembles some of the most famous names of South Indian Cinema and employs them in unconventional stories—dark, eccentric, and different from the usual crop.
09 Jun 2023
Shahid Kapoor'Bloody Daddy' review: Shahid's action-thriller should've been released in theaters
Shahid Kapoor's recent projects, Kabir Singh, Jersey, and Farzi showed him in an angry avatar. He returns to the same avatar with Bloody Daddy, an action thriller revolving around a drug racket.
07 Jun 2023
NetflixReasons why you shouldn't watch 'Manifest' finale season
Flight 828 returned mysteriously five years ago, and since then, the life of all its passengers has been nothing less than a puzzle.
04 Jun 2023
Amazon Prime Video#NewsBytesRecommends: 'Fall' on Amazon Prime Video—film defines edge-of-seat thrill
Scott Mann's adrenaline-inducing survival thriller Fall was released last year and turned out to be one of 2022's biggest and most surprising hits.
03 Jun 2023
NetflixPride Month special: Revisiting heartbreaking 'Thangam' from anthology 'Paava Kadhaigal'
Paava Kadhaigal (Sinful Tales), an anthology film, features four different stories by noted South Indian directors: Sudha Kongara, Vignesh Shivan, Gautham Vasudev Menon, and Vetrimaaran.
02 Jun 2023
JioCinema'Mumbaikar' review: Exhausting watch has nothing going in its favor
"What did I just watch?" was my first reaction when I finished watching Santosh Sivan's Mumbaikar, starring Vijay Sethupathi, Sachin Khedekar, Vikrant Massey, and Sanjay Mishra.
02 Jun 2023
Vicky Kaushal#NewsBytesReview: Stay 'Zara Hatke Zara Bachke' from Vicky-Sara's sloppy drama
After directing hit films such as Luka Chuppi and Mimi, filmmaker Laxman Utekar has returned with another family drama, titled Zara Hatke Zara Bachke.
01 Jun 2023
Marvel Cinematic Universe'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' review: Visually stunning; powerful emotional core
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the second part of the trilogy in Miles Morales's story and a follow-up to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a visually stunning and awe-inspiring artistic work that thrives due to strong emotional groundwork.
27 May 2023
Priyanka Chopra Jonas'Citadel' verdict: Priyanka Chopra Jonas starrer is disappointing disaster
The first season of Amazon Prime Video's spy show Citadel has finally wrapped up.
26 May 2023
Malayalam Movies'2018' Hindi review: Immaculately-shot survival thriller with powerful emotional undercurrents
The Hindi dubbed version of the Malayalam survival-thriller film 2018: Everyone is a Hero has been released theatrically on Friday.
26 May 2023
Jimmy Shergill'Aazam' review: Writing is star of engaging, yet inconsistent thriller
Jimmy Sheirgill, Indraneil Sengupta, and Abhimanyu Singh's crime thriller Aazam is a fast-paced drama about an intense power struggle between men placed at different hierarchical levels.
23 May 2023
Manoj Bajpayee#SirfEkBandaaKaafiHai review: Manoj Bajpayee lives up to the film's title
Manoj Bajpayee-led Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai literally translates to "only one man is enough" in English. There's nothing better that can describe Bajpayee's acting in the film than the title.
21 May 2023
YouTube#NewsBytesRecommends: 'Popcity' on YouTube—story of eccentric contract killer
Rohit Mittal's Popcity—soaked with zany humor of the kind we regularly see around us but not so often in films—is both an aspiring gangster's coming-of-age drama and a study of a troubled mind's frayed emotions that choke sans outlets.
19 May 2023
Sanya Malhotra'Kathal' review: Sanya Malhotra-starrer is a well done satirical comedy
When satire is mixed with an undertone of socio-political issues, you get served with a film like Kathal: A jackfruit mystery.
13 May 2023
OTT releases'Taj: Reign of Revenge' review: Of conspiracies, power hunger, revenge
The first part of season two of Taj, with the tagline Reign of Revenge, was released on Friday on the streaming platform ZEE5.
12 May 2023
Amazon Prime Video'Dahaad' review: Despite powerful performances, police procedural drama bites dust
Dahaad, created by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti and directed by Kagti and Ruchika Oberoi is a slow-burn police procedural drama set in Rajasthan.
12 May 2023
Vidyut Jammwal'IB71' review: Vidyut Jammwal's film has flaws but also merits
Vidyut Jammwal has stepped out of his action-hero identity but not entirely. His latest release, IB71, is an espionage thriller that is said to be inspired by true events. With a backdrop of the Indo-Pak 1971 war, the film runs high on patriotism.
12 May 2023
Amazon Prime Video'Citadel' review: Even in Episode 04, we only get crumbs
The fourth episode of Citadel has arrived.
07 May 2023
Netflix#NewsBytesRecommends: 'Operation Romeo' on Netflix—deeply nuanced, penetrating thriller drama
Operation Romeo tells the story of a young couple whose life is upended when their date turns into a nightmare.
05 May 2023
Sudhir Mishra'Afwaah' review: Points for ingenuity, but predictability, monotony mutilates film
Sudhir Mishra's social drama Afwaah, headlined by Sumeet Vyas, Bhumi Pednekar, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Sharib Hashmi, was released on Friday.
05 May 2023
Bollywood'The Kerala Story' review: Poor filmmaking bogs down important tale
Riding high on controversies, Sudipto Sen's directorial The Kerala Story (TKS) was released in the theaters on Friday. The makers have claimed that 32,000 Kerala women were converted to Islam and made to join ISIS. His bold attempt at narrating the details of the barbaric crime in a two-hour movie unfortunately falls flat due to various factors including weak acting, dialogue, and music.
05 May 2023
LGBTQ+'UnWoman' review: Sensitive, piercing LGBTQ+ drama rooted in rural India
UnWoman, directed by Pallavi Roy Sharma and produced by Gunjan Goel, Susheel Sharman, and Shalmali Prakash, is a sensitive, poignant, searing drama that exposes the grim reality of the LGBTQ+ community in India, especially in the hinterlands.
05 May 2023
Priyanka Chopra Jonas'Citadel' Episode03 review: Spy-thriller seems to be drowning in cliches
The third episode of Amazon Prime Video's Citadel has arrived.
30 Apr 2023
Netflix#NewsBytesRecommends: 'Awe!'—Cross-genre fantasy entertainer that does justice to sub-plots
The 2018 Telugu language film Awe!—directed by Prasanth Varma and co-produced by Nani—is a mind-bending cross-genre movie that masterfully combines elements of fantasy, magical realism, LGBTQ+ themes, comedy, horror, and psychological thrill.
28 Apr 2023
Ponniyin Selvan'Ponniyin Selvan: II' review: Mani Ratnam's magnum opus is masterpiece
What led to Nandini's bitterness toward the Chola empire, especially for Aditya Karilkalan? Were the Cholas able to save their dynasty? Was Arulmozhi Varman saved from the waters? All these questions were answered with the release of Ponniyin Selvan: II on Friday.
28 Apr 2023
ZEE5'U-Turn' review: Better to skip this bumpy, potholed road altogether
U-Turn, starring Alaya F, Rajesh Sharma, and Manu Rishi Chadha, arrived on ZEE5 on Friday.
27 Apr 2023
Amazon Prime Video'Citadel' review: PeeCee-Richard Madden set solid foundation for action-fueled thriller
Amazon Prime Video's globetrotting adventure spy thriller show Citadel (Episodes 1 and 2) will arrive on the streamer on April 28, Friday.
23 Apr 2023
YouTube#NewsBytesRecommends: 'The Other Pair' on YouTube—short film on selfless humanity
Well-made short films make for splendid viewing experiences because they say a lot in a limited time.
22 Apr 2023
NetflixStream or skip: Time-travel drama 'One More Time' on Netflix
One More Time is the latest addition to Netflix's humungous catalog of young adult dramas.
21 Apr 2023
Bengali Cinema'Chengiz' review: Predictable gangster drama fails to create impact
Bengali cinema's superstar Jeet's action drama Chengiz was released on Friday.
21 Apr 2023
Salman Khan#KisiKaBhaiKisiKiJaan review: Salman Khan starrer butchers physics, entertainment, sanity
There are several aspects that can go wrong in a film: the story and screenplay can dwindle, the characters can be half-baked, the pace can be languid, there can be a bewildering age gap between the primary protagonists, etc.
21 Apr 2023
OTT releases'Dancing on the Grave' review: A compelling crime docu-series
Three decades ago, in 1991, a missing case of a member of an influential family shook the entire nation, particularly Bengaluru. After years, when the sudden disappearance was discovered, nothing but the bones were found.
21 Apr 2023
Tigmanshu Dhulia'Garmi' review: Another run-of-the-mill student politics story
Filmmaker Tigmanshu Dhulia's last few offerings in the OTT world have one flavor in common - politics. Whether it was Tandav or The Great Indian Murder, his recent web shows have revolved around politics. Similar is the case with Garmi, which was released on Friday on SonyLIV.
16 Apr 2023
Netflix#NewsBytesRecommends: 'Loving Adults' on Netflix—twisted story of broken marriage
Thrillers that focus on infidelity, broken marriages, and the resultant violence and rage that stem from such situations are never in short supply, especially on Netflix.
14 Apr 2023
Radhika Apte'Mrs. Undercover' review: Hare-brained film offers zero logic, thrill, entertainment
Anushree Mehta's Mrs. Undercover arrived on ZEE5 on Friday.
14 Apr 2023
Samantha Ruth Prabhu'Shaakuntalam' review: Samantha-Dev Mohan's epic love story is only half-successful
After delivering her first successful pan-India film, Yashoda, in 2022, Samantha Ruth Prabhu has returned once again with yet another multi-lingual movie.
07 Apr 2023
Mrunal Thakur'Gumraah' review: Gripping narrative that frustratingly works only in parts
Mrunal Thakur and Aditya Roy Kapur's Gumraah was released on Friday.
07 Apr 2023
Hollywood'The Pope's Exorcist' review: Russell Crowe versus demon, sans horror
Remember the 1973 film The Exorcist? While it still remains a favorite of many, The Pope's Exorcist, based on Father Gabriele Amorth's one of the real-life exorcist cases, is anything but horrific.
07 Apr 2023
OTT releases'Jubilee' review: Well-crafted series steeped in nostalgia, ambition, artistic vision
Vikramaditya Motwane's series Jubilee arrived on Amazon Prime Video on Thursday, a few hours before its original release date of Friday, April 7.
01 Apr 2023
Adam SandlerReasons you should watch Jennifer Aniston-Adam Sandler's 'Murder Mystery 2'
Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler's action comedy mystery film Murder Mystery 2 landed on Netflix on Friday.
31 Mar 2023
Disney+ Hotstar'Gaslight' review: Predictable thriller bites more than it can chew
Sara Ali Khan, Vikrant Massey, and Chitrangada Singh starrer Gaslight arrived on Disney+ Hotstar on Friday.
30 Mar 2023
Bollywood'Bholaa' review: Ajay Devgn overshadows all in this high-octane actioner
Seen in a triple role of a director, producer, and of course, the lead actor, Ajay Devgn's Bholaa is a one-man show.
26 Mar 2023
Amazon Prime Video#NewsBytesRecommends: 'The Great Indian Kitchen'—no-holds-barred portrayal of sexist social fabric
Malayalam filmmaker Jeo Baby's pathbreaking 2021 film The Great Indian Kitchen is the kind of movie that makes you realize why you fell in love with cinema in the first place.
24 Mar 2023
Bollywood'Bheed' review: A hard-hitting, emotionally-charged reality of India's COVID-19 lockdown
Anubhav Sinha's films are often hard-hitting and a mirror reflection of certain things that are prevalent in society. He has a knack for making cinemas that will punch you in the gut.
24 Mar 2023
Netflix#ChorNikalKeBhaga review: Gripping tale of revenge-fueled double-crossing and mid-air heist
Ajay Singh's heist revenge drama Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga landed on Netflix on Friday.
24 Mar 2023
Malayalam Movies'Purusha Pretham' review: Predictable dark comedy thriller sans gripping tale
Aavasavyuham director Krishand has returned to entertain the audience with a new film, Purusha Pretham. This time, he has picked a dark comedy genre mixed with a thriller.
23 Mar 2023
Disney+ Hotstar'All That Breathes' review: Poetic tale of perseverance, compassion, humanity
Shaunak Sen's Oscar-nominated documentary All That Breathes has started streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
17 Mar 2023
Kapil Sharma'Zwigato' review: Kapil shines in emotionally resonant, yet flawed drama
Nandita Das's Zwigato, led by Kapil Sharma and Shahana Goswami, arrived on Friday.
17 Mar 2023
Bollywood'Mrs. Chatterjee Vs Norway' review: Rani Mukerji starrer disappoints
After 2021's disastrous movie Bunty Aur Babli 2, Rani Mukerji returned to the screens yet again. But this time, she teamed up with a non-Yash Raj Films banner for Mrs. Chatterjee Vs Norway.
08 Mar 2023
Bollywood'Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar' review: Bollywood's rom-com drought ends
For a while now, Bollywood was missing out on having a good romantic comedy. The dry spell of this genre ends successfully with the release of Ranbir Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor-led Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar.
03 Mar 2023
OTT releases'Gulmohar' review: Come, get soaked in this family drama
Gulmohar is no regular Indian family drama that is all crying but no fun. It's a fresh take that most of us will resonate with for a very simple reason- it does show the reflection of present-day families. We might be living under the same roof, but leading entirely different lives. It talks about change and acceptance.