Wish the film’s script displayed at least some level of guts and courage in dealing with issues such as excesses on reality television and rape . It hides in too many masked attempts at suspense and finally blows up in a  climax that has all the ingredients of  a dinner party gone hardly wrong.

At the very end when you thank God, Producer & Destiny for  liberty from the 2-hour claustrophobic tedium , a display card in the end-titles informs that we’ve just seen a film based on the worst oil rigging disaster in  the history of such disasters.

Shivaay is not the light fun crackerjack Diwali film you’d like to sit through this festive season. It is laden with an overbearing  darkness which eclipses all of the film’s efforts to pull us into its embrace.The proceedings get so edgy that they finally topple over.

Seeds of discontent and disorientation are sown in uncomfortable alcoves all across the film. The narration moves roughly and restlessly from one episode to another. The editing is abysmally patchy. The performances, barringAsif Basra as Ali’s mentor and caddy, are uneven.

Well Akshay, sorry to say this. But this is the most flaccid comedy of your career.

Though not unwatchable Baaghi lays way too much stress on optical thrills.Forget feeling for the lovers, you wait for them to stop singing dancing and fighting  long enough to give love a chance.This is a narrative so busy having sex it forgets to enjoy the orgasm.

The comic world of Santa Banta Pvt Ltd is suffused in an exasperating chaos. You want to be amused. You wait for punchlines. There is not one gag here that would evoke even a mild laughter in the audience. But if you appreciate some very accomplished comic actors trying to make sense of a plot that couldn’t have made sense even to those who wrote it, this is your film.

For all its enormous inner strength and its use of nostalgia as a tool of  emotional strength 45 Years is a strikingly sterile look at a marriage that has apparently weathered many storms but remains steadfast in its  place. If there’s any reason you need to watch the film it’s to see how casually graceful the lead pair makes the drama of a past betrayal in  a marriage.

Skip Carolunless you are a fan of Blanchett’s smouldering femininity.

I wish I could say, go have a blast, to stay in the mood of the Osama-Obama war to finish. But really all I can say is, not again please?  Thank  you.