Dekh Tamasha Dekh offers a combination of farcical, funny and depressing. How many movies can you say that for?

Bhootnath Returns is unnecessarily bloated. It has far too much sermonising. The narrative is simplistic and naïve. And yet I recommend that you see the film — because it is also heartfelt, genuinely moving and, for the first half at least, slyly funny.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier has verve and nerve. It’s popcorn entertainment, in the best sense of the word, especially if you see the film in IMAX 3D like I did.

Ankhon Dekhi is a lovely respite from the formulaic fare that clutters our multiplexes week after week. Make time for it.

Honestly, I can’t wholeheartedly recommend Lakshmi. In places, it’s repulsive and yet, it demands to be seen.

Ultimately Queen is Kangana’s triumph. I left the theater thinking about Rani and how the rest of her life would pan out. It’s not often you do that with a Bollywood character.

Why do you need to see Dallas Buyers Club? Two words – Matthew McConaughey. A profile of the actor in The New Yorker magazine uses the phrase The McConaissance – that is a bold second act. The lightweight rom-com hero has evolved into a ferocious actor and nowhere does his talent blaze more fiercely than in Dallas Buyers Club.

For a while, the deliberate pacing made me restless but then slowly, all the pieces fit together like poetry. The film is in black and white, which might be a daunting prospect for some of you. But the minimalism serves these fraught, sad lives well. And a special mention of 84-year-old Oscar-nominated actress June Squibb whose tart tongue is unforgettable. Do see Nebraska. It is a thing of beauty

Gulabi Gang is a fascinating portrait of the power of one.
The documentary, Gulabi Gang is a record of an extraordinary women’s movement started by the extraordinary Sampat Pal Devi in Uttar Pradesh in 2006.

Her has a profound melancholy. It directly speaks to our harried, technology soaked lives and our many selves who are, at once, virtually over-connected and yet, emotionally unmoored. In places, this film feels long and stretched. But it shifts something within you. When Theodore’s love affair ends, as it must, I cried.