Baradwaj Rangan Movie Reviews

Kuttavum Shikshayum
Review

Rajeev Ravi's 'Kuttavum Shikshayum', starring Asif Ali, is a superb police drama that ditches easy thrills for solid procedural detail

Anek
Review

Anubhav Sinha’s ‘Anek’, with Ayushmann Khurrana, takes us into the problems in the North East, but the socio-dramatic punch of this duo’s earlier work is missing.

Dhaakad
Review

Kangana Ranaut gets into action mode, but even she can't battle a script that is just a bunch of cliches

12th Man
Review

The new Mohanlal-Jeethu Joseph thriller, '12th Man', on Disney+ Hotstar is talky and dull

Keedam
Review

Rahul Riji Nair's cyber-thriller 'Keedam' has solid performances from Rajisha Vijayan and Sreenivasan, but the plotting never transcends the basics of the genre

Sakutumba Sametha
Review

Rahul PK’s ‘Sakutumba Sametha’ plays like an easy-breezy rom-com, but it’s more: a beautifully written choreography of conflict

Puzhu
Review

Mammootty is spectacular in Ratheena’s ‘Puzhu’ (SonyLIV), the rare film where a man from a dominant caste is depicted as a victim

Thar
Review

Raj Singh Chaudhary's 'Thar', on Netflix, is a neo-Western that sets up an interesting premise and does very little with it

Saani Kaayidham
Review

Arun Matheswaran’s ‘Saani Kaayidham’, on Amazon Prime, is a gory revenge drama with impeccable craft, but the writing needed much more meat

Jana Gana Mana
Review

Dijo Jose Antony's 'Jana Gana Mana' is a well-performed drama (Prithviraj Sukumaran, Suraj Venjaramoodu) about the slipperiness of truth

Heropanti 2
Review

Ahmed Khan's 'Heropanti 2' has some good stunts but everything else is bad

Runway 34
Review

Ajay Devgn's 'Runway 34' transforms a tense and horrifying real-life event into a flat drama

Kaathuvakkula Rendu Kaadhal
Review

Despite good performances and some good laughs, Vignesh Shivan's 'Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal' doesn't come together satisfyingly

Jersey
Review

Gowtam Tinnanuri's 'Jersey', with Shahid Kapoor and Mrunal Thakur, is generic and simplistic, but an easy and pleasant watch

Antakshari
Review

In ‘Antakshari’, a fairly engaging thriller directed by Vipin Das, Saiju Kurup plays a music-loving cop who gets involved in a mystery

KGF 2
Review

In 'KGF: Chapter Two’, director Prashant Neel and his star Yash deliver a superior, epic sequel

Beast
Review

In ‘Beast’, Nelson and Vijay join hands to deliver an underwhelming hostage drama

Taanakkaran
Review

The okayish 'Taanakkaran', by Tamizh, has Vikram Prabhu as a heroic police trainee taking on the System

Dasvi
Review

In Tushar Jalota's inconsistently written 'Dasvi', Abhishek Bachchan is a politician who wants to study and Nimrat Kaur shines as his cartoonish wife.

Tortoise Under The Earth
Review

Shishir Jha's 'Tortoise Under the Earth' is a moving document of the Santhal-speakers in Jharkhand, whose lives are being displaced by uranium-mining companies

Mee Vasantrao
Review

Nipun Dharmadhikari's ‘Mee Vasantrao’ is a superb biopic that captures the essence of the great classical singer Vasantrao Deshpande

Selfie
Review

Mathi Maran's underwhelming 'Selfie', has GV Prakash as a college student who stumbles on a "seats for money" racket.

RRR
Review

SS Rajamouli's ‘RRR” is an entertaining masala epic with great star turns, but deeper emotions might have made this even better

Pedro
Review

Natesh Hegde's 'Pedro' is a beautifully mounted debut about a daily-wager who becomes an outcast.

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