As movies of this budget, bandwidth and expectations go, Catching Fire is not exceptional. But it can’t be dismissed either. And that is good enough.

Delivery Man, actually a remake of Scott’s successful French-Canadian film Starbuck, plays it straight, stolid, sentimental and sanctimonious, to middlingly satisfactory but highly expected results.

For ‘Bullett Raja’, the extra ‘t’ for emphasis, is a potboiler with little pretensions to realism but much too close a connection with Dhulia to entirely jettison it too.

Let’s just say you should be grateful Karan Johar doesn’t see an India beyond the metros more often. For when a Johar production heads to a village, as ‘Gori Tere Pyaar Mein’ does, it is the sort of village where people dressed in tie and dyes hang around to fawn over the city slicks who will deliver them from a collector.

Parallels have been drawn with A Mighty Heart, even Zero Dark Thirty, but that’s only because all three films are set in what passes for Pakistan. However, D-Day’s imagining of Karachi is entirely Indian and far more intimate. Advani should take a bow, as for the most part, it works.

What is the most disconcerting part about Man of Steel though is its uneven pacing, unsure of whether it wants to be a blockbuster or a film about a man finding himself, or a boy growing up with scary powers, or a man finding his feet. It achieves none of the above credibly, being too loud (in all senses of the word) when it comes to the bang and too obvious when it comes to the pangs, and being always very, very solemn, trying very, very hard.

Luhrmann, who also co-wrote the screenplay, stuns you — and not in a nice way — with this introduction to Gatsby’s world and with later how Gatsby makes an appearance himself.

…you don’t wander about that much as the journey, complete with fantastical plants and animals, is interesting and funny enough — that too, without any songs.

The action sequences are spectacular, particularly the destruction of Stark’s sea-cliff home and the skydiving scene where Iron Man rescues people who have been thrown off the US President’s plane. Stark also gets a chance to be back where he started and to see if he can do it all over again, with the help of a child. – See more at: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/movie-review-iron-man-3/1108053/0#sthash.i78UbdwG.dpuf

It’s how well the characters are etched, in white and grey and the varying shades in between, that makes the first half of Silver Linings Playbook, directed and written for the screen by David O Russell from a Matthew Quick book, such a delight.