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Zee5: Kaam Chalu Hai

Director: Palaash Muchhal

Cast: Rajpal Naurang Yadav, Giaa Manek and Kurangi Vijayshri Nagraj

Killer potholes and gaps that show

Netflix: The Hijacking of Flight 601

Director: Pablo Gonzalez, CS Prince

Cast: Monica Lopera, Angela Cano, Enrique Carriazo, Marcela Benjumea, Christian Tappan, Johan Rivera, Carlos Manuel Vesga, Valentin Villafañe, Alian Devetac, Juan Pablo Raba, Ilena Antonini

Longest hijacking, lengthy take

(2.5/5)

Do Aur Do Pyaar

Director: Shirsha Guha Thakurta

Cast: Vidya Balan, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Pratik Gandhi, Ileana D’Cruz, Thalaivasal Vijay

Bold exploration of marriage, but...

(2.5/5)

Zee5: Silence 2: The Night Owl Bar Shootout

Director: Aban Bharucha Deohans

Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Prachi Desai, Sahil Vaid and Parul Gulati

He can’t salvage it

(2/5)

Fallout

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(0/5)

Blood Free

Director: Park Chul-hwan

Cast: Han Hyo-joo, Ju Ji-hoon, Lee Hee-joon, Lee Moo-saeng, Park Ji-yeon and Kim Sang-ho

K-melodrama

(3.5/5)

Bade Miyan, Chote Miyan

Director: Ali Abbas Zafar

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Tiger Shroff, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Manushi Chhillar, Alaya F, Ronit Roy

Action, reaction, little attraction

(1.5/5)

Maidaan

Director: Amit Ravindernath Sharma

Cast: Ajay Devgn, Priyamani, Chaitanya Sharma, Amartya Ray, Davinder Singh, Tejas Ravishankar, Gajraj Rao, Nitanshi Goel, Vijay Maurya, Abhilash Thapliyal

‘Chak De’ halo lights up ‘Maidaan’

(3/5)

Amar Singh Chamkila

Director: Imtiaz Ali

Cast: Diljit Dosanjh, Parineeti Chopra, Apinderdeep Singh, Nisha Bano, Rahul Mittra, Vipin Katyal and Anjum Batra

‘Chamkila’ dazzles, no dispute here

(3.5/5)

sonyliv Family Aaj Kal

Director: Parikshit Joshi

Cast: Apoorva Arora, Nitesh Pandey, Sonali Sachdev, Aakarshan Singh, Prakhar Singh and Masood Akhtar

All in the family

(2.5/5)

The First Omen

Director: Arkasha Stevenson

Cast: Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Sônia Braga, Tawfeek Barhom, María Caballero, Charles Dance, Bill Nighy & Nicole Sorace

Not a good omen

(2/5)

Netflix Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer

Director: Caroline Schaper and Jan Zabell

Cast:

Murder he wrote, but why remains mystery

(2.5/5)

Netflix Ripley

Director: Steven Zaillian

Cast: Andrew Scott, Johnny Flynn, Dakota Fanning, Vittorio Viviani, Bokeem Woodbine, Eliot Sumner, Louis Hofmann, Maurizio Lombardi and John Malkovich

‘Ripley’ once more, gripping as ever

(3.5/5)

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Director: Adam Wingard

Cast: Rebecca Hall, Kaylee Hottle, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens, Alex Ferns, Fala Chen, Rachel House, Mercy Cornwall

Monster spectacle

(3/5)

NETFLIX: Testament: The Story of Moses

Director: Benjamin Ross

Cast: Avi Azulay, Mehmet Kurtulus, Dominique Tipper, Reymonde Amsallem, Ishai Golan and Tulay Gunal Goncu

Savour the Moses tale, enriched by talking heads

(3.5/5)

Disney+Hotstar: Patna Shukla

Director: Vivek Budakoti

Cast: Raveena Tandon, Satish Kaushik, Manav Vij, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Jatin Goswami and Anushka Kaushik

Uncommon, agreeable, yet dour

(2/5)

Crew

Director: Rajesh A Krishnan

Cast: Tabu, Kriti Sanon, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Diljit Dosanjh, Kapil Sharma, Rajesh Sharma and Saswata Chatterjee

‘Crew’ stands out, film not so much

(2.5/5)

Shirley

Director: John Ridley

Cast: Regina King, Lance Reddick, Terrence Howard, Lucas Hedges, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Christina Jackson and Michael Cherrie

Fight for equal rights

(3/5)

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Lal Salaam

(2/5)

Madgaon Express

Director: Kunal Kemmu

Cast: Pratik Gandhi, Divyenndu, Avinash Tiwary, Chhaya Kadam, Upendra Limaye, Nora Fatehi and Remo D’Souza

A laugh riot

(2/5)

Ae Watan Mere Watan

Director: Kannan Iyer

Cast: Sara Ali Khan, Sachin Khedekar, Emraan Hashmi, Abhay Verma, Sparsh Shrivastav, Anand Tiwari, Aditi Sanwal, Alexx O’Neil, Benedict Garrett

Insipid tribute to radio rebel who made waves

(2/5)

Swatantra Veer Savarkar

Director: Randeep Hooda

Cast: Randeep Hooda, Ankita Lokhande, Apinderdeep Singh, Amit Sial, Mark Bennington

Flawed and disconnected

(2/5)

Lootere

Director: Jai Mehta

Cast: Rajat Kapoor, Vivek Gomber, Amruta Khanvilkar, Chandan Roy Sanyal and Aamir Ali

Well-steered pirate survival drama

(3/5)

Documentary: Frida

Director: Carla Gutierrez

Cast:

Portrait of an artist

(3.5/5)

Big Girls Don’t Cry

Director: Nitya Mehra, Sudhanshu Saria, Karan Kapadia, Kopal Naithani

Cast: Pooja Bhatt, Zoya Hussain, Tanya Abrol, Avantika Vandanapu, Aneet Padda, Akshita Sood, Vidushi, Lhakyila, Afrah Sayed, Dalai

Keeping it real

(2.5/5)

Bastar: The Naxal Story

Director: Vipul Amrutlal Shah

Cast: Adah Sharma, Yashpal Sharma, Naman Jain, Shilpa Shula, Raima Sen, Anangsha Biswas, Vijay Krishna, Rahuul Chwudhary, Subrat Dutta, Indira Tiwari

Gung-ho posturing

(1/5)

Yodha

Director: Sagar Ambre, Pushkar Ojha

Cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Raashii Khanna, Disha Patani, Ronit Roy, Tanuj Virwani

Fight and flight to nowhere

(1.5/5)

Murder Mubarak

Director: Homi Adajania

Cast: Pankaj Tripathi, Sara Ali Khan, Vijay Varma, Karisma Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Tisca Chopra, Sanjay Kapoor, Suhail Nayyar and Deven Bhojani

Suspense, humour, social comment

(2.5/5)

Maharani III

Director: Saurabh Bhave

Cast: Huma Qureshi, Uday Atroliya, Sohum Shah, Kani Kusruti, Amit Sial, Parmod Pathak, Vineet Kumar, Dibyendu Bhattacharya

Third season quells the fun

(2.5/5)

All of Us Strangers

Director: Andrew Haigh

Cast: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Carter John Grout, Clare Foy, Jamie Bell

Educative, evocative, entertaining

(3.5/5)

Disney+Hotstar Showtime

Director: Mihir Desai and Archit Kumar

Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Mouni Roy, Shriya Saran, Naseeruddin Shah, Rajeev Khandelwal, Mahima Makwana, Vijay Raaz, Lillete Dubey and Denzil Smith

Shaky in parts, but show must go on

(2.5/5)

Maamla Legal Hai

Director: Rahul Pandey

Cast: Ravi Kishan, Naila Grewal, Yashpal Sharma, Rama Sharma, Nidhi Bisht, Vijay Rajoria, Anjum Batra, Anant Joshi and Ajay Raju

Legally hilarious

(2.5/5)

The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth

Director: Uraaz Bahl and Shaana Levy

Cast:

Sheena Bora truth remains buried

(2/5)

Dune: Part Two

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Souheila Yacoub, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling & Javier Bardem

Mesmerising, beautifully imagined epic

(3.5/5)

Laapataa Ladies

Director: Kiran Rao

Cast: Nitanshi Goel, Sparsh Shrivastava, Pratibha Ranta, Ravi Kishan, Geeta Aggarwal and Chhaya Kadam

Ladies’ special, a joyous & sweet ride

(3.5/5)

Netflix Can I Tell You A Secret?

Director: Liza Williams

Cast:

Web of destruction

(3/5)

All India Rank

Director: Varun Grover

Cast: Bodhisattva Sharma, Shashi Bhushan, Geeta Agarwal Sharma, Sheeba Chaddha

Well-intentioned, but underwhelming

(2/5)

Article 370

Director: Aditya Suhas Jambhale

Cast: Yami Gautam, Priyamani, Kiran Karmarkar, Arun Govil and Ashwini Koul

K files, the 370 chapter

(2/5)

Prime Video Poacher

Director: Richie Mehta

Cast: Nimisha Sajayan, Roshan Mathew, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Ankith Madhav, Kani Kusruti, Sooraj Pops, Sanoop Dinesh, Ranjitha Menon and Vinod Sharawat

Jumbo resolve to take on poachers

(3.5/5)

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Salaar

(0/5)

Five Blind Dates

Director: Shawn Seet

Cast: Shuang Hu, Yoson An, Jon Prasida, Desmond Chiam, Ilai Swindells, Tiffany Wong, Renee Lim and Mel Jarnson

Striking right notes

(3/5)

Love Storiyaan

Director: Hardik Mehta, Vivek Soni, Shazia Iqbal, Akshay Indikar, Archana Phadke and Colin D’Cunha

Cast: Aekta Kapoor, Ullekh NP, Nicholas Jonathan Kharnami, Rajani Karki Chhetri, Farida Saha, Sunit Kumar Saha, Rahul Banerjee, Subhadra Khaperde, Dhanya Ravindran, Homayon Khoram, Tista Das and Dipan Chakraborty

When power of love breaks barriers

(3.5/5)

This Is Me… Now

Director: Dave Meyers

Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Jane Fonda, Fat Joe, Jenifer Lewis, Trevor Noah, Kim Petras, Keke Palmer, Sofia Vergara, Jay Shetty, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sadhguru and Post Malone

JLo and behold, a new genre is born

(3.5/5)

Bob Marley: One Love

Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green

Cast: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Tosin Cole, Umi Myers, Anthony Welsh, Nia Ashi, Aston Barrett Jr, Anna-Sharé Blake, Gawaine ‘J-Summa’ Campbell, Naomi Cowan, Alexx A-Game, Michael Gandolfini

Capturing the magic of Bob Marley

(3/5)

Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya

Director: Amit Joshi and Aradhana Sah

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Kriti Sanon, Dharmendra, Dimple Kapadia, Rakesh Bedi, Rajesh Kumar and Ashish Verma

No surprises here

(2.5/5)

Netflix Bhakshak

Director: Pulkit

Cast: Bhumi Pednekar, Sanjay Mishra, Aditya Srivastava, Sai Tamhankar, Surya Sharma

Powerful portrayal of a grim story

(3/5)

ZEE5 Lantrani

Director: Kaushik Ganguly, Gurvinder Singh and Bhaskar Hazarika

Cast: Johnny Lever, Jitendra Kumar, Nimisha Sajayan, Jisshu Sengupta and Boloram Das

Tale it like it is, in rural India

(3/5)

The Holdovers

Director: Alexander Payne

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston

Holdovers no more, trio’s triumph

(4/5)

Expats

Director: Lulu Wang

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue, Ji-young Yoo, Brian Tee, Tiana Gowen, Bodhi del Rosario, Ruby Ruiz, Amelyn Pardenilla and Jack Huston

A riveting piece of drama, Expats shines on the back of some great performances by the lead actors

(3.5/5)

Warning 2

Director: Amar Hundal

Cast: Gippy Grewal, Prince Kanwaljit Singh, Rahul Dev, Jasmin Bhasin, Raghveer Boli, Dheeraj Kumar, Jaggi Singh, Raj Singh Jhinjar

Compelling watch

(3/5)

Argylle

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Cast: Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, Sofia Boutella, Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose, John Cena and Samuel L Jackson

A spy story of lies and deception, which even star power fails to save

(2/5)

NETFLIX: Alexander: The Making of a God

Director: Hugh Ballantyne, Stuart Elliott and Mike Slee

Cast: Buck Braithwaite, Mido Hamada, Dino Kelly, Will Stevens, Nada El Belkasmi, Alain Ali Washnevsky, Kosha Engler, Steven Hartley

Making Alexander appear not so great

(2.5/5)

Anatomy of a Fall

Director: Justine Triet

Cast: Sandra Huller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner and Samuel Theis

As he falls, she rises to the occasion

(4/5)

Fighter

Director: Siddharth Anand

Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone, Anil Kapoor, Karan Singh Grover, Akshay Oberoi, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Talat Aziz, Sanjeev Jaiswal, Rishabh Sawhney and Ashutosh Rana

On the wings of sentiment and valour

(2.5/5)

Drame Aale

Director: Chander Kamboj

Cast: Sukhwinder Chahal, Harish Verma, Sharan Kaur, Rubi Anam, Qaiser Piya, Malik Asif Iqbal, Sardar Kamal, Honey Albela

Cosmetic drama

(1.5/5)

Indian Police Force

Director: Rohit Shetty and Sushwanth Prakash

Cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Shilpa Shetty, Nikitin Dheer, Sharad Kelkar, Vivek Oberoi, Isha Talwar, Shweta Tiwari and Mukesh Rishi

Not a force to reckon with

(1.5/5)

The Beekeeper

Director: David Ayer

Cast: Jason Statham, Jeremy Irons, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi, Josh Hutcherson, Minnie Driver, Enzo Cilenti, Dan Li, Phylicia Rashad and Jemma Redgrave

A surprisingly satisfying actioner

(2.5/5)