The camera finds Idhaya mid-flight, New York to Chennai, a man about to marry while confessing his romantic history to…
The premise arrives with a hook sharp enough to draw blood, a high-stakes game where every move carries consequences beyond…
The city is under lockdown, and bodies are piling up. That’s the world Krithick Krishnan builds in Find Me, a…
Three hours and five minutes is a long time to spend with a film that cannot decide whether it wants…
The most electric moments in *Ananthan Kaadu* belong to Indrans. As Krishnan Kutty, the leader of a working-class group that…
The film opens with K. Bhagyaraj’s lead returning to his native village, tasked with selling his grandfather’s property to settle…
On the crowded steps of Varanasi, where life and death brush past each other, Madhavan (Indrans) first locks eyes with…
Five youngsters sit in a room, transfixed by a fantasy game that grants every wish the moment it’s spoken. The…
Ajay Chandran is a 24-year-old already drowning in Thiruvananthapuram’s underworld, and the film’s opening act makes sure you feel the…
The moment Trimurthulu disrupts the Chief Minister’s plan to project her son as a future leader should crackle with tension.…
The early stretches of Kiran Narayanan’s Revolver Rinko capture something genuinely sweet: a pack of village children, obsessed with superheroes,…
There is a stretch in Balan: The Boy where the teenage protagonist sits with a fragment of memory, his mother’s…
A jobless man in a northern Kerala village catches what looks like a secret meeting between neighbors. That single, fleeting…
The premise is almost too good to waste: a drunken New Year prank, sacred crosses pried from graves, and five…
The forest of Aanakolli breathes with menace in the opening stretch, as elephants, shrinking habitats, and ivory smugglers establish a…
A gambler named Rossi loses everything in a fictional Bengaluru, and within minutes he is sprinting through a city teeming…
There is a moment in Abhishek Pathak’s *Drishyam: The Conclusion* where Vijay Salgaonkar simply sits in silence, and the camera…
The first death lands with clinical precision, a body in a hospital that should be saving lives, not losing them.…
The shift from romance to dread happens quietly in Ugly Story, one moment Karthik is charming Neha, the next his…
The case is reopened, and Georgekutty is once again standing in the crosshairs of a police force that refuses to…
The opening gambit is almost charming: a carefree orphan and a runaway minister’s daughter lock eyes, and within the span…
The college gates swing open and Sreekuttan Vellayani walks back into a world of old grudges, louder friendships, and the…
The opening frames find Suriya split between Karupasamy and Saravanan, a dual-name gambit that promises a layered performance. He commits…
Vidhu carries the entire weight of a man who is terrified of the calendar flipping to 30. His Sathya is…
SI Vijay Radhakrishnan walks into a hill-station police station where the biggest concern is probably the tea getting cold. That…
There is a specific kind of silence that falls over a theatre when a romance is working, the collective held…
Dharahas packs his bags for the United States, chasing a romance that the film’s opening frames as a breezy comic…
The con is simple: convince Vijay that his dream girl is a human-robot hybrid, then watch the comic chaos unfold.…
There’s a moment in Jetlee where Satya, as the possibly-blind, possibly-extraction-agent Ved Vyas, holds the screen with a grin that…
The walk says everything. Mammootty and Mohanlal stride through their introductory sequences with the kind of mythic swagger that makes…
