The Desperate Hour movie review: Naomi Watts runs about a lot in a thriller that hardly goes anywhere
Vinayakc • 3 years agoPhillip 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 • 3 years agoWhat 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 • 3 years agoGurgaon, 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 • 3 years agoTahir 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 • 3 years agoThe 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 • 4 years agoAdd 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 • 4 years agoDon'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 • 4 years agoMaestro 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 • 4 years agoKhufiya 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
• 4 years agoThe 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.