Yodha
Sagar Ambre and Pushkar Ojha’s ‘Yodha’ is a generically enjoyable thriller with solid action bits
Chidambaram’s ‘Manjummel Boys’ is a solid, efficient survival story told in broad strokes – flaws and all, the ‘high moments’ work
Gautham Vasudev Menon’s ‘Joshua’ is an underwhelming affair, an action B-movie with no pulp thrills
Rahul Sadasivan’s deeply evocative ‘Bramayugam’ is not so much a horror movie as a movie about the timeless horrors of oppression
Aditya Suhas Jambhale’s ‘Article 370’ is an effective, entertaining primer on Kashmir, mixing outdoor action and indoor political drama
Kiran Rao’s ‘Laapataa Ladies’ is a satirical comedy whose entertainment value makes it easy to overlook the broad messaging
Siddartha Jatla tackles capitalism in the haunting ‘In the Belly of a Tiger’, which had its world premiere at the Berlinale
PS Vinothraj follows up ‘Pebbles’ with ‘Kottukkaali’, another excellent ‘road movie’ which world-premiered at the Forum section of the Berlinale
Amit Joshi & Aradhana Sah's 'Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya' is a man-robot love story without an iota of genuine human emotion
Aishwarya Rajinikanth’s ‘Lal Salaam’ is an underwhelming, old-fashioned story about Hindu-Muslim unity
Lijo Jose Pellissery’s hallucinatory ‘Malaikottai Vaaliban’ is a warrior story that subverts how we see warrior stories on screen
Sriram Raghavan’s ‘Merry Christmas’ is an elegant, experimental thriller that’s more interesting to think about than sit through
Arun Matheswaran’s ‘Captain Miller’ has interesting ideas, but the film remains an emotionally aloof series of cool shots