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The Desperate Hour movie review: Naomi Watts runs about a lot in a thriller that hardly goes anywhere
Vinayakc •Phillip Noyce’s new film tries creating suspense using high school shooting as backdrop with middling outcome.
Ten years of Kahaani: When Vidya Balan told herself a story
Devanshsharma •What made Kahaani a riveting story, and not just a soulless thriller, is the mother's beating heart piercing through all the deception.
As Shankar Raman's sophomore feature Love Hostel releases, revisiting his assured debut in Gurgaon
Rahuldesai •Gurgaon, despite its dated sense of flashback, is a bonafide crime drama. It deserved more than scattered critical acclaim and throwbacks ahead of the director’s next film Love Hostel.
Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein: Tahir Raj Bhasin is what Shah Rukh Khan could have been in a Netflix show
Devanshsharma •Tahir Raj Bhasin's layered performance reminds one of what Shah Rukh Khan could have achieved had he been given the luxury of six hours of runtime to build a character and live through the conflict.
Aarya Season 2 review: Sushmita Sen strikes back in Ram Madhvani's thrill-a-minute ride with a spine
Devanshsharma •The sense of stillness that made Aarya a thriller with a soul arrives quite late in this season. But the delay is planted and deliberate. The pace is relentless, but the core remains uncompromised.
Old movie review: M Night Shyamalan's new thriller gets lost in time
Prahlad Srihari •Add Old to the unrealised potential column of M Night Shyamalan’s filmography.
Don't Breathe 2 movie review: Thriller marrying character study makes it clunky, sentimental
Tatsam Mukherjee •Don't Breathe 2, while preserving the bloodlust of the original, aspires to offer redemption to the antagonist, while also trying to be a character study for him.
Maestro movie review: Faithful Andhadhun remake that's decisively simplistic
Sankeertana Varma •Maestro never pretends to be anything but a tamed version of its original. Director Merlapaka Gandhi wanted to make a film that is easily accessible, and as such he mostly succeeds.
Tabu to reunite with Vishal Bhardwaj for Netflix India spy thriller Khufiya
Fp Staff •Khufiya will see Tabu play a R&AW agent "grappling with her dual identity of a spy and a lover."
Every Vow You Break: An indiscretion, a stalker and a wedding fuel Peter Swanson's latest thriller
•The book title, Every Vow You Break, which calls to mind a famous stalker song by The Police — sets readers up for what the publisher’s hype has promised. A thriller.