Reviews

It's a priceless acting comeback. After completing Gran Torino back in 2008, Clint Eastwood announced that he would not return in front of the camera again. Rashid Irani writes.

Skyfall is worth a look right away because it's a cut above the pop-cornish Bond, reassuring us that cinema would just not be the same without the periodic reappearance of the spy with the licence to storm the ticket counters. Rashid Irani writes.

Watching Ajab Gazabb Love, a loose remake of Telugu hit Seema Tapakai, is like watching an utterly mediocre movie from the 1990s,Suprateek Chatterjee writes.

David Mitchell’s trippy 2004 novel is brought to the big screen in sumptuous style by the Wachowski siblings (The Matrix trilogy) and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run). The ambitious adaptation unfolds in six different places and time periods ranging from the Pacific islands  in 1849 to post-apocalyptic Hawaii. Rashid Irani writes.

Whether they’re magical (Toy Story) or malevolent (Child’s Play), toys have come to life in several Hollywood movies. But be warned: this is not a family-friendly film. A lonely eight-year-old receives a teddy bear as a Christmas present and wishes his toy would come to life.

There are films that try to tell emotionally complex stories and succeed in making an impact. Chakravyuh, unfortunately, is not one of those films. Suprateek Chatterjee writes.

An actor whose career has seen steep ups (blockbusters such as Armageddon) and downs (the crass Gigli), Ben Affleck has also snagged an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (with Matt Damon) for Good Will Hunting, besides directing two Boston-set crime capers, Gone Baby Gone and The Town.

Ex-CIA agents never give up. They can't, because the past--distant or recent--catches up with them. Incidentally, that plot premise is also convenient for hacking out utterly dismaying sequel flicks like Taken 2, made three years after the original which had its quota of James Bond-ish spills, thrills and slivers of sophistication. Rashid Irani writes.

Karan Johar's forte is excess. He creates fantastical worlds brimming with beautiful people and expensive things and yet anchors them in high emotion. His films work as both designer porn and soap opera.

Makkhi is the most outlandish film I've seen in years. It's also the most fun I've had in a theatre recently. This is the dubbed Hindi version of Eega, which was released earlier in Tamil, Telegu and Malayalam, but nothing has been lost in translation.