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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicMovie review

Topic: Movie review

Bhonsle review: Manoj Bajpayee will win your heart in this film about hate, fear & kindness

Out on SonyLIV, Bhonsle is a striking film about the effect of learned hatred & how a little kindness & bravery is all we need to counter it.

Bulbbul review: Anushka Sharma’s new Netflix production upturns the idea of a fairy-tale

Directed by Anvita Dutt, the movie is a feminist take on childhood stories that combines horror, period drama & social commentary.

Penguin review: Watch it for Keerthy Suresh and beautifully shot scenes of horror

Director-writer Eashvar Karthic delivers a well-crafted story that plays on every parent’s fear but overdoes it on the macabre.

Gulabo Sitabo review: Amitabh Bachchan & Ayushmann Khurrana deliver a quirky, passable tale

Shoojit Sircar’s film, out on Amazon Prime Video, is amusing and well shot, but a slow pace and stretched-out writing threaten to bore.

Spelling The Dream: Netflix docu film on desi success at spelling bee is gripping but limited

Of the last 31 champions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, the biggest such contest in the US, 26 have been Indian-Americans.

Pati Patni Aur Woh review: Kartik Aryan & Bhumi Pednekar film is a remake nobody needed

Boring, unfunny script caters to the male ego. Pati Patni Aur Woh is the most underwhelming version of everything you’d expect.

Panipat review: Almost another lavishly mounted caricature of Muslim invaders as brutes

Arjun Kapoor, Kriti Sanon and Sanjay Dutt star in Ashutosh Gowariker's portrayal of the Third Battle of Panipat.

Ujda Chaman review: The movie has the right intentions but the wrong filmmakers

While the female character is, surprisingly, strong and watchable, she gets little screen time in this celebration of the modern male ego.

Saand Ki Aankh review: The Taapsee Pannu and Bhumi Pednekar film largely hits the mark

Despite a schmaltzy and overlong second half, Saand Ki Aankh — the film about UP's famous Shooter Dadis — is an absolute delight.

Laal Kaptaan review: Gorgeous cinematography & an ambitious idea can’t save this Saif film

Overlong and unnecessarily longwinded, epic period Western-style action drama Laal Kaptaan is a beautiful bore.

On Camera

Operation Sarp Vinash — the forgotten 2003 campaign that changed India’s fight against terror

Lt Gen Hardev Singh Lidder’s book on Operation Sarp Vinash shows why the Indian Army’s 2003 campaign to clear terrorist strongholds in Rajouri-Poonch still matters today.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.