Alpha (2026): A Tattoo That lands hard though the screenplay stays patchy
The opening scene of *Alpha* (2026) does not waste a second. Alia Bhatt’s protagonist walks home from a party, rolls up her…
I, Nobody (2026): Prithviraj’s Controlled Thriller Loses Its Grip in the Final Reel
Rajeevan is just another government employee when he witnesses something he shouldn’t have. The bank robbery aftermath that follows turns his routine…
Pradhama Dhrishtya Kuttakkar (2026): Shahad Nilambur’s Craft Sharpens a Moral Trap
A scuffle inside the Nattakom station in Kottayam ends with a man in custody dead on the floor, and four constables standing…
Baby Do Die Do (2026): The First Kill keeps the film tense but uneven overall
The first murder arrives in near-silence. Baby KarMarKar, a deaf-mute woman played by Huma Qureshi, hears her dead sister’s voice for the…
Ikka (2026): Sunny Deol Anchors stands out while the narrative loses grip
The courtroom goes silent as Sunny Deol’s Arjun Mehra, the man who never loses a case, locks eyes with Akshaye Khanna’s Shauryaman…
Haiwaan (2026): Priyadarshan’s Craft Holds While His Thriller Slips
Sound arrives before sight in Haiwaan, and Priyadarshan leans into that idea with real craft. A blind caretaker maps a room by…
Mother Promise (2026): Dhananjaya Anchors A Chaotic Kannada Comedy-Thriller
A hapless gambler (Dhananjaya) sprints through a fictional Bengaluru, dodging debt and two powerful dons, when his mother (Vinaya Prasad) suddenly joins…
Karavali (2026): Kambala Spectacle Can’t Hide A Fractured Narrative
The Kambala races thunder across the screen with mud-splattered ferocity, and for a moment, Gurudatta Ganiga’s coastal drama feels like it might…
Dhurandhar: The Revenge (2026): Ranveer Singh’s Spy Saga Demands More Than It Delivers
Hamza Ali Mazari is knee-deep in a Pakistani criminal outfit, wearing a dead gangster’s authority like borrowed armour, while Major Iqbal closes…
Enna Vilai (2026): A Fisherman, a Gold Pendant, and the Quiet Machinery of Injustice
The first image that sells Enna Vilai is almost insultingly simple: a coin sinking through green water, caught between a devotee’s fingers…
Ire (2026): A Non-Existent Film, A Masterclass in Missed Connections
The very premise of reviewing a film that doesn’t exist is, in itself, a fascinating exercise in modern cinema’s demand for content.…
Tadviruddha (2026): A Dense Kannada Mystery That Values Evidence Over Excitement
Vikram Ramaiah’s retired officer Anthony sits with a fading crime photograph, the kind of grainy 1990s evidence that demands patience. There is…
Accused (2026): Konkona Carries a Film Too Cautious to Fully Commit
A surgeon stands over an open incision and calls her colleague’s work a bloody disaster, cool, clinical, almost bored in her contempt.…
Baththa (2026): Vijay Sethupathi Anchors A High-Concept Premise That Tests Patience
Balaji Tharaneetharan has never been a filmmaker interested in the obvious. The director behind Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom and Seethakaathi has built…
Varavu (2026): Joju George s stands out while the narrative loses grip
Joju George enters a hillside town where power has long crushed whispers. As “Poly” Polachan, he carries the weight of a family…
Magudam (2026): Vishal s Crown lifts key stretches, not the full runtime
The harbour air in Visakhapatnam carries salt, rust, and the memory of a 1965 child-trafficking escape that opens this 185-minute revenge saga.…
Drishyam 3 (2026): Ajay Devgn Returns to Finish What Deception Built
Vijay Salgaonkar sits in the shadows of his own life, waiting for the past to resurface, and it does, with new evidence…
Kitti (2026): Ashok Kumar Balakrishnan Anchors a Confession Thriller That Forgets to Interrogate
The auto-rickshaw driver walks into the station and says he did it. Two bodies, he claims, are on him. No chase, no…
The India Story (2026): Shreyas Talpade the lifts key stretches, not the full runtime
Talpade plays a man wrestling with a system that has failed him. His face carries the exhaustion of someone who has seen…
Character’s Creation (2026): The Missing Frame keeps the film tense but uneven overall
There is a moment in *Character’s Creation* where the frame goes empty, no actor, no dialogue, just a held silence that stretches…
Drishyam 3 (2026): Mohanlal’s Crime Drama Extends a Franchise Past Novelty
Georgekutty moves through another calculated frame, protecting his family once more in a crime-drama engine that has already proven its commercial machinery…
Manithee: the fire bird (2026): MJ Nitharsan’s Ambitious Tamil Fantasy-Thriller Burns Bright But Flickers Out
MJ Nitharsan’s Manithee: The Fire Bird opens with a premise that sounds like two different films wrestling for the same runtime. A…
LURK (2026): Saiju Kurup Stuck lands hard though the screenplay stays patchy
The forest is dense, the stakes are life-and-death, but Saiju Kurup’s performance in Lurk feels like it is fighting a different enemy:…
Poovellaam Kettuppaar (2026): The Malaysian Frame lands hard though the screenplay stays patchy
The title carries weight, but the canvas is unfamiliar. This 2026 Malaysian Tamil psychological thriller enters a crowded space where identity often…
Maa Behen (2026): Madhuri Dixit’s Crime Cover-Up Gamble Subverts Domestic Chaos
A mother discovers a dead body in her kitchen and immediately faces an impossible choice: confess or convince her feuding daughters to…
Detective Teekshanaa (2026): Priyanka Upendra’s Sleuthing Drama Stays Methodical, Never Thrilling
The trailer’s rapid montage of murders promises a detective who pieces together chaos through pure observation. Priyanka Upendra enters the frame as…
Unmadham (2026): Kunchacko Boban Anchors A Mystery That Loses Its Grip
Kunchacko Boban walks through the first half of Unmadham with a quiet intensity that suggests something dangerous is coiled beneath the surface.…
Monkey In A Cage (2026): Kashyap Pins Celebrity Crisis on Bobby Deol’s Controlled Descent
A fading television star blocks his ex-girlfriend’s attempts to reconnect, but her escalating response, a rape accusation, traps him in a corrupt…
Photographer (2026): Ashraf A’s Forest Thriller Is a Promise Waiting to Develop
The trailer’s most telling moment isn’t a jump scare, it’s Veera standing at the edge of Mathikettan Solai, told that twelve people…