Yashaswini Sri
Indian Express
Most Divergent Takes
- Maa Inti Bangaram (2026)7.0 vs TRM 5.8+1.2
- Sing Geetham (2026)8.0 vs TRM 6.8+1.2
- With Love (2026)8.0 vs TRM 7.0+1.0
- Karuppu (2026)6.0 vs TRM 5.2+0.8
- Rao Bahadur (2026)6.0 vs TRM 5.2+0.8
With Love
2026 · Indian Express
With Love is the kind of film that won't blow you away with spectacle, but it will sit quietly in your chest for days afterward. It's a film about looking back at the people who shaped you without realizing it, about the courage it takes to say what you feel, and about the strange, wonderful possibility that the right person might have been there all along, you just weren't ready to see them yet.
Kara
2026 · Indian Express
Vignesh Raja's period heist drama is like watching two films. The first half is gripping, tense and emotionally precise. The second tests your patience. Dhanush, as always, makes them both worth watching.
Made in Korea
2026 · Indian Express
Made in Korea keeps playing it safe when it should have been brave enough to go deeper. You leave it feeling pleasant rather than moved, entertained rather than affected. For a film that begins with the image of a girl climbing an elephant for a signal, that is a little disappointing.
Peddi
2026 · Indian Express
Buchi Babu Sana comes into his second film with a genuinely interesting idea at its core, and Ram Charan makes the most of it. But at 189 minutes, Peddi carries too much weight in the wrong places, and not enough where it counts.
Karuppu
2026 · Indian Express
One of Suriya's strongest performances in years is delivered in a film that is only half as good as he is. Suriya is why this film works and why he is worth watching. Karuppu is flawed in ways it cannot hide. But it has Suriya at his most committed, a first half that delivers, and enough big moments to make the ticket worth it.
Maa Inti Bangaram
2026 · Indian Express
Samantha Ruth Prabhu finally lands on solid ground after the misfires of Shaakuntalam and Yashoda. The action carries the film, even when the emotional writing struggles to keep pace.
Sing Geetham
2026 · Indian Express
The result is fantastical, ambitious, and unlike anything Telugu cinema has put on screen before.
Nagabandham
2026 · Indian Express
Abhishek Nama's mythological adventure has the money and the scale. What it does not have is writing strong enough to hold three hours together.
Rao Bahadur
2026 · Indian Express
Director Venkatesh Maha returns after five years with a psychological thriller that slowly creeps under your skin and makes you appreciate cinema as an artform. Satyadev delivers a career-best performance.
I, Nobody
2026 · Indian Express
Nissam Basheer's bank heist thriller reunites Prithviraj Sukumaran and Parvathy Thiruvothu after years, but a bloated runtime, a sagging middle act and a mystery that does not justify its length restrict it.
Lenin
2026 · Indian Express
Akhil Akkineni shines in this intense rural drama inspired by the Mahabharata, set against a village's annual jatara.
Varavu
2026 · Indian Express
Joju George is towering as Paulson, but a bloated second act and old-school treatment keeps it from being the complete package.
Jana Nayagan
2026 · Indian Express
H Vinoth's political action drama gives Vijay the mass moments his fans want but wraps them in a film that feels a decade too late. Bobby Deol's track is a mess, the VFX is poor, and the emotional core is lost in translation.