It makes so much noise that any sensible point about brotherly bonding and filial fidelity that it might be trying to make is completely drowned out by the decibels. Take your earplugs along.

It careens out of control before you can say bang and hurtles scratchily down a path that hits a dead-end all too quickly. Stay out of the way.

If you really desire to visit Krakow, pack your bags and spare yourself a Bangistan detour.

Drishyam is gripping in parts but is anything but an unblemished humdinger.

Dripping pain and poetry in equal measure, the film presents intertwined stories of repression, rebellion and repentance set against the funeral pyres of a Varanasi cremation ghat.
Vicky Kaushal and Shweta Tripathi deliver a pair of luminous performances that stay with you long after the film is over.

This dazzling debut film is an unmissable gem.

Bajrangi Bhaijaan is a supercharged cross-border drama that goes all out – and then some – in delivering its message of subcontinental peace.

Watch Bajrangi Bhaijaan even if you aren’t an inveterate Salman Khan fan. Harshaali will steal your heart.

Scale of ambition: gargantuan. Quality of VFX: out of the ordinary. Content: only occasionally gripping. Final impact: pretty strong.

A lighthearted film about a deadly serious subject could have easily gone horribly wrong. Guddu Rangeela doesn’t. It is lively, droll and occasionally thought-provoking.

Barring the stray rough edges, Guddu Rangeela is eminently watchable.

An ensemble cast of seasoned character actors who know their onions inside out but aren’t quite sure of their Haryanvi dictions raises Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho a few notches above the median.

Recommended with a rider: this certainly isn’t time-pass fare.

For dance freaks, there is much on offer. For lovers of cinema, ABCD 2 is a hazy blur of a movie.

Hindi cinema history has seen one big film about “loving your parents”. Dil Dhadakne Do is about “hating your parents” and in the process compelling them to change their ways.

Yawn! Dil Dhadakne Do is a snoozefest and a surefire cure for insomnia.