John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) Review – Bigger, Longer, and Brutally Beautiful By the fourth chapter of any action series, the usual pattern is exhaustion. The hero has less to say, the villains are thinner copies of earlier villains, and…
Kamli (2022) Review – Saba Qamar’s Haunting Tale of Love and Longing Most Pakistani films shout to be heard. Kamli whispers, and somehow that whisper stays with you for days. Released on 3 June 2022, at a time when cinemas…
Parasite (2019) Review – A Rich House, a Poor Family, and the Staircase Between Them Every few years a film arrives that reminds the whole world what cinema can do. Parasite, released in South Korea on 30 May 2019 after…
Drishyam (2013) Review – How Far Can a Father Go to Protect His Family? The most dangerous man in Drishyam has no gun, no political power and no formal education worth mentioning. He runs a small cable-TV business in a…
Dangal (2016) Review – Fathers, Daughters and a Gold Medal Dream Every few years, a Hindi film comes along that manages to be a crowd-pleaser, a critical favourite, and a genuine conversation-starter at the same time. Dangal is that rare…
Vikram (2022) Review – Once Upon a Time, There Lived a Ghost There is a moment, deep into Vikram, when Kamal Haasan’s character finally stops hiding and the film exhales — you can feel an entire theatre lean forward. Released…
RRR (2022) Review – Fire, Water and the Loudest Bromance in Indian Cinema Most big films try to give you value for money. RRR tries to give you value for money, then doubles it, sets it on fire, throws it…
12th Fail (2023) Review – Restart, and Mean It Some films arrive with noise. Others arrive quietly and then refuse to leave your head for weeks. 12th Fail belongs firmly to the second group. Released without the usual carpet of…
Dune: Part Two (2024) Review – A Desert Epic That Actually Earns Its Scale Some sequels simply repeat what worked before, only louder. Dune: Part Two does something rarer. It takes the careful, sometimes distant world-building of the first film…
The Legend of Maula Jatt (2022) Review – The Punjabi Epic That Changed Pakistani Cinema Forever Some films entertain you. A rare few change what an entire industry believes is possible. The Legend of Maula Jatt is firmly in the…