Friday, September 2, 2016

Movie Reviews: Island City and more

Friday, September 02, 2016
Island City (Movie Reviews)
Critic's Rating: By: Renuka Vyavahare
Direction: Ruchika Oberoi
Cast: Pathak, Amruta Subhash, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Ashwin Mushran, Sameer Kochhar
Film explores this tangled ‘Mumbai state of mind’ through its three unique characters.
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Skiptrace (Movie Reviews)
Critic's Rating: By: Reagan Gavin Rasquinha
Direction: Renny Harlin
Cast: Jackie Chan, Johnny Knoxville, Bingbing Fan, Eric Tsang, Eve Torres, Winston Chao
This movie is quite delightfully off its rocker.
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Don't Breathe (Movie Reviews)
Critic's Rating: By: Reagan Gavin Rasquinha
Direction: Frede Alvarez
Cast: Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, Emma Bercovici, Katia Bokor
Right from the opening frame, ​​Don’t Breathe gets into the heart of things with an ominous scene that looks straight out of a nightmare.
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Mechanic: Resurrection (Movie Reviews)
Critic's Rating: By: Reagan Gavin Rasquinha
Direction: Dennis Gansel
Cast: Jason Statham, Tommy Lee Jones, Jessica Alba, Michelle Yeoh, Sam Hazeldine, Femi Elfuwoju Jr, Anteo Quintavale, John Cenatiempo
For even a seasoned critic or a cynic looking for points to poke about, there are none in the performance that he delivers when it comes to brute action.
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Nine Lives (Movie Reviews)
Critic's Rating: By: Reagan Gavin Rasquinha
Direction: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Christopher Walken, Jennifer Garner, Robbie Amell, Cheryl Hines, Malina Weissman, Consuelos, Teddy Sears, Talitha Bateman
The film essentially rides on the humour, Spacey’s dry wit and wry asides, as he at first struggles to come to terms that he is now a cat.
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A Flying Jatt (Movie Reviews)
Critic's Rating: By: Srijana Mitra Das
Direction: Remo D'Souza
Cast: Tiger Shroff, Jacqueline Fernandez, Amrita Singh, Gaurav Pandey, Nathan Jones, Kay Kay Menon
Tiger does a neat job as Aman, shivering superhero who fights crime but also buys 'do kilo lauki' on the way home.
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Waarrior Savitri (Movie Reviews)
Critic's Rating: By: Renuka Vyavahare
Direction: Param Gill
Cast: Niharica Raizada, Rajat Barmecha, Om Puri, Gulshan Grover
While the fable is well known, moulding it to make it relevant to today's times is a good thought.
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Happy Bhag Jayegi (Movie Reviews)
Critic's Rating: By: Renuka Vyavahare
Direction: Mudassar Aziz
Cast: Diana Penty, Abhay Deol, Jimmy Sheirgill, Ali Fazal, Momal Sheikh, Piyush Mishra
Happy Bhag Jayegi is a fresh, light-hearted take on cross-border camaraderie that revolves around a runaway bride.
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Pete's Dragon (Movie Reviews)
Critic's Rating: By: Renuka Vyavahare
Direction: David Lowery
Cast: Oakes Fegley, Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oona Laurence, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban
Watching Pete’s Dragon is like hearing your mom read out a bedtime story for you.
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Ben-Hur (Movie Reviews)
Critic's Rating: By: Reagan Gavin Rasquinha
Direction: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro, Nazanin Boniadi, Ayelet Zurer, Pilou Asbæk, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Morgan Freeman
All in all, justice has been done to this tale of epic scale.
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Enakku Veru Engum Kilaigal Kidaiyathu (Tamil)
Critic's Rating: By: M Suganth
Direction: Ganapathy Balamurugan
Cast: Goundamani, Soundararaja, Riythvika, Shanoor Sana, Velmurugan, Ramachandran Durairaj, Moonar Ramesh
The problem with the film is that the unfocussed script, which doesn’t provide its star anything to bite into.
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54321 (Tamil)
Critic's Rating: By: M Suganth
Direction: Raghavendra Prasad
Cast: Aarvin GR, Shabeer, Pavithra Gowda, Ravi Raghavendra, Jayakumar, Rohini
Prasad does manage to compensate for the deficient writing through his filmmaking.
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Bayam Oru Payanam (Tamil)
Critic's Rating: By: Thinkal Menon
Direction: Manisharma
Cast: Bharath, Vishakha Singh, Meenakshi Dixit, Urvasi, Yogi Babu, Singam Puli, Muniskanth
Despite starting out in hopeful fashion, the film ends up as a futile attempt.
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Meendum Oru Kadhal Kadhai (Tamil)
Critic's Rating: By: M Suganth
Direction: Mithran Jawahar
Cast: Walter Philips, Isha Talwar, Manoj K Jayan, Nasser, Arjunan, Thalaivasal Vijay, Vidyullekha, Venkatesh Harinathan
For those who have seen the original, there is enough here for someone looking for light-hearted entertainment.
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Dharmadurai (Tamil)
Critic's Rating: By: M Suganth
Direction: Seenuramasamy
Cast: Vijay Sethupathi, Tamannaah, Aishwarya Rajesh, Radikaa Sarathkumar, Srushti Dange, MS Bhaskar, Ganja Karuppu, Aruldas
The film does have genuinely affecting moments, and actors enhance the ordinary writing in many of the scenes.
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Janatha Garage (Telugu)
Critic's Rating: By: Pranita Jonnalagedda
Direction: Koratala Siva
Cast: NTR, Mohanlal, Samantha, Nithya Menen, Unni Mukundan, Sachin Khedekar, Ajay, Rehman, Devyani and Sai Kumar
This Janatha Garage might give everyone a hand in repairs but they need a wee bit of repair themselves for sure. But that’s no reason to miss the film.
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100 Days of Love (Telugu)
Critic's Rating: By: Deepa Soman
Direction: Jenuse Mohammad
Cast: Dulquer Salman, Nithya Menen, Shekhar Menon
Many real and reel life clichéd situations are given some impressive entertaining twists
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Banthipoola Janaki (Telugu)
Critic's Rating: By: Pranita Jonnalagedda
Direction: Nellutla Praveen Chander
Cast: Dhanraj, Deeksha Panth, Chamak Chandra and others
Synopsis: What is a 90 minute film will seem like an eternity making you wonder when this will come to an end.
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Aatadukundam Raa (Telugu)
Critic's Rating: By: Pranita Jonnalagedda
Direction: G Nageswara Reddy
Cast: Sushanth, Sonam Bajwa, Murli Sharma, Anand, Firoz Abbas, Brahmanandam, Vennela Kishore, Prudhvi
Synopsis: We only wish we can now use the machine (like Brahmi supposedly did), go back in time, and tell the team, “Kasta story and writing paina shraddha pettandi.”
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Chuttalabbayi (Telugu)
Critic's Rating: By: Srividya Palaparthi
Direction: Veerabhadram Chowdary
Cast: Aadi, Sai Kumar, Namitha Pramod, Abhimanyu Singh
Chuttalabbayi is a cringe-fest with neither a particular plotline, nor a shred of screenplay. There is nothing memorable about the movie except for how frustrated it makes you.
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