Monumental effort falls short slightly

4

Reviewed King Kong (New)

Arguably the most awaited movie of the year, this is a re-make of the original which hit the screens more than 70 years ago! The character has managed to live iread more...

Good time-pass...

3

Reviewed Just Like Heaven

Reese Witherspoon has been on a roll since Legally Blonde. But even while experimenting with movies like Vanity Fair, it seems like she has to survive on a stapread more...

Rising above horror

4

Reviewed The Exorcism of Emily Rose

This under-publicised, small movie rings a bell because of the title. It reminds you of the movie that rocked the world in the 70s. Comparisons are but natural;read more...

Pleasant outing

4

Reviewed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Tim Burton is equally known for telling tales of fantasy as also for painting pretty pictures, using the screen like a painter’s canvas. While the latter iread more...

Different amongst the different

4

Reviewed My Wife's Murder

Anil Kapoor has long vacated the top bracket in the film industry, but he continues to churn out varied movies at a steady pace. This time around, he strikes a read more...

Wannabe epic

3

Reviewed Mangal Pandey - The Rising

When you think a movie is hyped like none before, it is only followed by another which erases the previous one from memory. This is one such movie, talked aboutread more...

Good kind of controversy

4

Reviewed Black Friday

This controversial movie took a long time to get past various hurdles and make it to the theatres, only to be barred from screening within a few days. That onlyread more...

A tribute it is...

4

Reviewed Sarkar

The first movie that actually had the two Bachchans on board, with the bigger one directed by wacko Ram Gopal Varma for the first time is enough to set up expecread more...

Chill out, Hollywood style...

3

Reviewed Mr and Mrs Smith

Two of the hottest Hollywood stars are pitted against each other, dressed up in deadly black and guns on the poster. What do you expect? Let us leave alone the read more...

Marrying art and commerce...

3

Reviewed Paheli

King Khan has been daring to be different for a while now. This is yet another such venture, this time surprisingly joining hands with an arty director, who alsread more...

Spielberg's ordinary outing

4

Reviewed War of the Worlds

Steven Spielberg needs no introduction. The top director has been kind of cooling his heels for the past few years by coming up with light (by his standards) moread more...

Biggest is not necessarily the best

3

Reviewed Anniyan

Starting from his second movie, Shankar’s offerings have always been the most-awaited events of Tamil moviedom and this one is no different. Expectations aread more...

Pace and personality kill the fun

3

Reviewed Bunty Aur Babli

BaB comes to the screen with a lot of big things going for it -- Yash Chopra’s banner, the reigning queen paired with the red-hot star and also for the firread more...

Classic stuff

4

Reviewed Parineeta

Vidhu Vinod Chopra is another director who has been focussing on creative production of late. After hugely successful Munnabhai MBBS, he decides to experiment wread more...

Fresh look

3

Reviewed D

In addition to the hype that this movie is based on the real-life underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, it’s another gangster saga from the Varma stable. We also read more...

Something different, but that's not enough...

3

Reviewed A Series of Unfortunate Events

’’Lemony Snicket, who?’’ might be the common question in this part of the world. But in the US of A, this series of books is supposedly crearead more...

'Masala' experiment

3

Reviewed Mumbai Xpress - Tamil

Kamal Haasan has had a long and fruitful association with Crazy Mohan and they have churned out numerous hilarious comedies. After about a decade and a half, Karead more...

Multi-layered masterpiece

4

Reviewed Million Dollar Baby

Oscar fever continues to delight me, with the most successful of them all this week. Swank, whose acting abilities had got the Oscar seal once already, teams upread more...

Interesting peek into the past

4

Reviewed The Aviator

This is the movie that received the maximum Oscar nominations for 2004, but unfortunately wasn’t as successful with awards. With that kind of background, iread more...

Welcome change

4

Reviewed Lost in Translation

Independent movies of Hollywood can be likened to the Parallel Cinema movement of the Eighties in India. These are movies that are meaningful, devoid of commercread more...