The monotony is awfully exhausting and drab in the absence of script, craft and nerve-racking unpredictability…

The best thing I can say about Baaghi 2 is it does have its moments of ‘so bad it’s good’ gratification in Prateik Babbar’s hammy dope head, the babyish wailing of a constable assisting Hooda and Tiger’s bizarre boss, the guy could put caricatures to shame with his ‘The war is over’ solemnity.

What a circus!

Spielberg’s love song is a thumping joyride…

You believe in the brilliance of Rani’s sparkling intelligence and physical stamina through the arduous journey of straightening an unruly lot and braving a barb-ready rival sniggering at her methods — Neeraj Kabi’s starchy, suit-clad, teacher is Narayan Shankar to Rani’s nonconforming Raj Aryan.

But the vexing obviousness and self-pitying texture of the narrative cannot be justified by playing earnest.

And that’s one syndrome Hichki never gains advantage over till the end.

As disappointing that is, Raid does have its moments of compelling optimism and unexpected wit.

It’s also the most I’ve enjoyed watching Ajay Devgn in a while.

Dil Juunglee may reward his conceit for jumping into the water, but that won’t wash his sins away or make suffering fools a love story.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’s insistence to tidy up the mess through coincidences and contrivances, force an almost overnight change of heart and absolve a vitriolic creature with sure enough history of racial violence is not only unconvincing but defeats all its justice-seeking ideals.

If, unlike me, you can set these ethical differences aside, the McDormand steamroller is one hell of an engaging viewing.

Pedestrian wit works best around actors who don’t just go with the flow, but shape it to suit their comical timing. That’s the difference between performers and parrots.

But the underwhelming leads of Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety don’t seem to know the difference at all.

Del Toro hits a cinematic nerve in capturing an enduring love for the oddball, the beauty in the bizarre and, most importantly, reminding what it’s like to have what one wished for since a kid — a happy ending.

This is a spirited but emotional origins story — of a king learning the predicaments of power, a son overwhelmed by the idea of filling his father’s shoes, of co-existence and divide that is defined by colour and discriminated by history. And that it’s just as dedicatedly fun doubles the pleasure of it all.