Movie Review: News
11 Aug 2023
Sony LIV'Por Thozhil' review: Don't miss this fascinating, engaging crime thriller
If you like watching a crime thriller, then you must have Por Thozhil on your watchlist. Although the Tamil film was released in the theaters in June, it is on Friday that it premiered on SonyLIV.
10 Aug 2023
OTT releases#MadeInHeaven2Review: Performances, direction, cast make four years' wait worth it
After making us wait for four and a half years, Zoya Akhtar's back with Delhi's wedding season as Made In Heaven returned with Season 2. Released on Amazon Prime Video on Thursday, the sequel is worth the wait.
09 Aug 2023
OTT releases#TheJengaburuCurse review: It's greed versus survival in this intriguing tale
National Award-winning filmmaker Nila Madhab Panda, best known for his works such as I Am Kalam, has returned to screens with a show that's intriguing till the very end.
08 Aug 2023
Fahadh FaasilFahadh Faasil's birthday: Revisiting his thriller film 'Irul'
One of the leading actors in the Malayalam film industry, Fahadh Faasil is celebrating his 41st birthday on Tuesday.
06 Aug 2023
Netflix#NewsBytesRecommends: 'The Occupant' on Netflix—creepy thriller about disgruntled advertising executive
The 2020 Spanish film The Occupant (original title: Hogar) is a thriller drama directed by David Pastor and Àlex Pastor.
04 Aug 2023
Sony LIV'Fatafati' review: A grounded film on body shaming and fashion
When Satram Ramani's Double XL, addressing body shaming was released last year, it failed to make an impact. But Aritra Mukherjee's Bengali film Fatafati which also talks about fat-shaming, is sensitive and moving, among many other things.
28 Jul 2023
Ranveer Singh'RRKPK' review: KJo's grand-scale romance is enjoyable, but not flawless
After a hiatus of seven long years, Karan Johar has returned to the director's chair with Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani.
21 Jul 2023
Christopher Nolan'Oppenheimer' review: Christopher Nolan delivers best film of 2023
After making films such as The Dark Knight, Interstellar, Inception, etc, the bets on Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer were high. A biopic on "the father of the atomic bomb" J Robert Oppenheimer, it can rightly be termed as Nolan's finest.
21 Jul 2023
Greta Gerwig'Barbie' review: Ryan Gosling's the showstopper in this not-so-plastic world
The "plastic world" of Greta Gerwig is "fantastic" but has its own share of dull moments too. Starring Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as her sidekick boyfriend Ken, Barbie was released on Friday.
21 Jul 2023
Varun Dhawan'Bawaal' review: A meaningless drama, wrapped in a history lesson
When you try to add too many flavors to a dish, you might end up cooking a tasteless disaster. Bawaal is Nitesh Tiwari's khichdi (mix of everything) which, in its attempt to become flavourful with multiple themes, loses its plot.
16 Jul 2023
YouTube#NewsBytesRecommends: 'Barat'—short horror film reinforces how humans are scariest species
The best kind of horror films almost always reinforce the idea that the deadliest horror doesn't lurk in the shadows but often lies in humans' minds and hearts.
14 Jul 2023
OTT releases'College Romance 4' review: Warm yet average series finale
Following the success of the first three seasons, the gang of College Romance returned for its fourth and final season on Friday.
12 Jul 2023
Mission: Impossible#MI7Review: Tom Cruise's actioner isn't perfect, still it's a must-watch
After several delays due to the global pandemic, Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part One has finally arrived in the theaters, and how! The seventh installment of the uber-successful franchise is a visual treat for all the Cruise and MI fans out there.
07 Jul 2023
Huma Qureshi'Tarla' review: Not Huma, Sharib lends flavor to this biopic
Huma Qureshi and Sharib Hashmi starrer Tarla, a biopic on India's most-loved celebrity chef Tarla Dalal, was released on ZEE5 on Friday.
07 Jul 2023
Bangladesh'Hawa' review: This Bangladeshi mystery-drama is compelling
Mejbaur Rahman Sumon's Bangladeshi film Hawa premiered on SonyLIV on Friday. Bangladesh's official entry to Oscars 2023, it's about a compelling story that may seem slow in the beginning but eventually picks up and ends well.
07 Jul 2023
Vidya Balan#NeeyatReview: Unpredictable final twist, but film's 'intention' doesn't translate well
Vidya Balan's Neeyat feels like a lot of things simultaneously—it wants to be a commentary on the class system, a scathing critique of billionaires, an eat-the-rich film, and, of course, a whodunnit.
07 Jul 2023
Amazon Prime Video'Adhura' review: Ishwak Singh, Rasika Dugal make it must-watch series
Love supernatural thrillers? If yes, then Amazon Prime Video's latest series Adhura, which dropped late on Thursday, should be on your list.
02 Jul 2023
Hollywood#NewsBytesRecommends: 'Last Night in Soho'—electric thriller fueled by spirited performances
Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho (2021), starring Anna Taylor-Joy (The Queen's Gambit), Matt Smith (The Crown), and Thomasin McKenzie (Old), is an electric film painted in bright, rich, neon colors and tells a tale of a woman's life ripped apart at the seams by incessant exploitation in the prostitution industry.
29 Jun 2023
Kiara Advani#SatyapremKiKatha review: Kiara Advani's 'Katha' is the real star here
Kiara Advani and Kartik Aaryan's festive release, Satyaprem Ki Katha is the latest that Bollywood has to offer to the theater-going audience.
29 Jun 2023
Netflix#LustStories2Review: Barring Sujoy Ghosh's segment, the anthology is tedious, flat
Lust Stories 2 hit Netflix on Thursday. It features four stories directed by R Balki, Konkona Sen Sharma, Sujoy Ghosh, and Amit Ravindernath Sharma, and explores the themes of sexual liberation, infidelity, and passionate romance.
25 Jun 2023
Netflix#NewsBytesRecommends: 'Hamid' on Netflix—both heartwarming and heartbreaking in equal parts
Aijaz Khan's Hamid, available on Netflix, is a story about a seven-year-old who speaks to God and begs him for days on end to send his father back to him.
24 Jun 2023
NetflixPride Special: Why 'Schitt's Creek's David-Patrick remain iconic queer couple
Netflix's Schitt's Creek is a hug-shaped heartwarming drama, a rare project that can boast about getting everything right.
23 Jun 2023
Amazon Prime Video#TikuWedsSheru review: Inexplicably chaotic film doesn't know where to go
Sai Kabir's Tiku Weds Sheru was released on Amazon Prime Video on Friday.
23 Jun 2023
Sharman Joshi'Kafas' review: Edgy, hard-hitting, and thrilling watch
SonyLIV's latest offering is the Sharman Joshi and Mona Singh-led Kafas, a web series that premiered on Friday. The social drama series has picked up the sensitive topic of child abuse mixed with many other factors prevalent in society, only to present a hard-hitting reality.
18 Jun 2023
Netflix#NewsBytesRecommends: 'Cinema Bandi'—of dreams, hopes, filmmaking ambitions
There are some films that soar high due to their cast, relentless promotion, jaw-dropping budget, and stupendous locations.
17 Jun 2023
Pride MonthPride Special: 'Two Little Boys'—short film about repercussions of homophobia
Two Little Boys is a short film available on YouTube about the repressed emotions of a gay teenager and his violent encounter with the boy he is in love with.
16 Jun 2023
Adipurush'Adipurush' review: Even gods would demand answers from shoddy adaptation
Om Raut's Adipurush, perhaps an unintentional cross between live-action and animation, has finally been released five months later than its original schedule.
15 Jun 2023
Ezra Miller'The Flash' review: Even Batmen can't save Ezra's double-role disaster
David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery termed The Flash as the "best superhero movie" he ever saw. Sure, the early reviews during the CinemaCon screening in April generated excitement around the Ezra Miller starrer, but it's far from meeting expectations.
11 Jun 2023
YouTube#NewsBytesRecommends: 'Authohead' on YouTube—auto driver's heightened nihilism, coupled with megalomania
Rohit Mittal's Autohead utilizes the popular genre of mockumentary and digs its claws into multiple problems permeating urban India: caste, class, xenophobia, and the intersection of nihilism-existential crisis.
10 Jun 2023
Vijay SethupathiPride Special: Revisiting Vijay Sethupathi's transgender character from 'Super Deluxe'
The 2019 Tamil film Super Deluxe assembles some of the most famous names of South Indian Cinema and employs them in unconventional stories—dark, eccentric, and different from the usual crop.
09 Jun 2023
Shahid Kapoor'Bloody Daddy' review: Shahid's action-thriller should've been released in theaters
Shahid Kapoor's recent projects, Kabir Singh, Jersey, and Farzi showed him in an angry avatar. He returns to the same avatar with Bloody Daddy, an action thriller revolving around a drug racket.
07 Jun 2023
NetflixReasons why you shouldn't watch 'Manifest' finale season
Flight 828 returned mysteriously five years ago, and since then, the life of all its passengers has been nothing less than a puzzle.
04 Jun 2023
Amazon Prime Video#NewsBytesRecommends: 'Fall' on Amazon Prime Video—film defines edge-of-seat thrill
Scott Mann's adrenaline-inducing survival thriller Fall was released last year and turned out to be one of 2022's biggest and most surprising hits.
03 Jun 2023
NetflixPride Month special: Revisiting heartbreaking 'Thangam' from anthology 'Paava Kadhaigal'
Paava Kadhaigal (Sinful Tales), an anthology film, features four different stories by noted South Indian directors: Sudha Kongara, Vignesh Shivan, Gautham Vasudev Menon, and Vetrimaaran.
02 Jun 2023
JioCinema'Mumbaikar' review: Exhausting watch has nothing going in its favor
"What did I just watch?" was my first reaction when I finished watching Santosh Sivan's Mumbaikar, starring Vijay Sethupathi, Sachin Khedekar, Vikrant Massey, and Sanjay Mishra.
02 Jun 2023
Vicky Kaushal#NewsBytesReview: Stay 'Zara Hatke Zara Bachke' from Vicky-Sara's sloppy drama
After directing hit films such as Luka Chuppi and Mimi, filmmaker Laxman Utekar has returned with another family drama, titled Zara Hatke Zara Bachke.
01 Jun 2023
Marvel Cinematic Universe'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' review: Visually stunning; powerful emotional core
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the second part of the trilogy in Miles Morales's story and a follow-up to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a visually stunning and awe-inspiring artistic work that thrives due to strong emotional groundwork.
27 May 2023
Priyanka Chopra Jonas'Citadel' verdict: Priyanka Chopra Jonas starrer is disappointing disaster
The first season of Amazon Prime Video's spy show Citadel has finally wrapped up.
26 May 2023
Malayalam Movies'2018' Hindi review: Immaculately-shot survival thriller with powerful emotional undercurrents
The Hindi dubbed version of the Malayalam survival-thriller film 2018: Everyone is a Hero has been released theatrically on Friday.
26 May 2023
Jimmy Sheirgill'Aazam' review: Writing is star of engaging, yet inconsistent thriller
Jimmy Sheirgill, Indraneil Sengupta, and Abhimanyu Singh's crime thriller Aazam is a fast-paced drama about an intense power struggle between men placed at different hierarchical levels.
