…this is the most festive release this week, and barring those rather minor flaws you’ll find lots of reasons to like Soggaade Chinni Naayana. Might as well take the risk, eh?

The film and its title push us to use a superb reference (BBC’s Black Adder) for a superbly dull film. We have this to say – Point Break is like a broken pencil. It’s pointless.

It’s like opening the newspaper to find a small four-panel comic, chuckling, being moved, and moving on.

The scariest thing about Bengal Tiger is that it might end up becoming a hit due to Ravi Teja’s following in the masses. If that does happen, God save us from a spate of similar movies. And if it doesn’t, there’s still hope for Tollywood.

Historical inaccuracies aren’t new or undesirable to Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind is a bare shadow of Slyvia Nasser’s book). His strengths usually lie in bending real incidents to suit his drama requirements. If he’d stuck just to thrills or just to drama, the film would have been greatly satisfying. However, he attempts more here and ends up with less. A pity.

Size Zero is a one-time watch if only for Anushka. Ironic that after preaching big is beautiful in this film, she finds herself under immense pressure to lose weight and “get back in shape” for Baahubali 2.

At the end of the day, Mockingjay Part 2 is like a perfectly good piece of candy that has been ruined by stretching it out till it lost its original flavor. Either way, it’s time to give this franchise the famous three-finger salute and bid it farewell.

Ali tries to be a dream peddler with this one, with only partial success. Tamasha could still inspire you if you looked beyond the execution and peered into the heart of the story. We’ll call a spade a spade, and tell you that you might not get as entertained as you’d expect from a Kapoor-Padukone romance. However, we hope this mild misfire doesn’t really impact Ali’s own dreams – he does have some really good ones, you know.

…is a dark little film with no subplots or entertainment just for the sake of it. The ending hints at a franchise with inspectors Diwakar and Mallika (Trisha) – bring it on, we say!

Although it feels aimless and self-indulgent throughout the first half, X: Past Is Present finds some purpose towards the end. However, you’ll have to be exceedingly forgiving to sit through the first half waiting for the movie to find itself later on.