Shalini Langer

Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 movie review: Don’t go expecting any light touches, or any hummable music like Part I in Kartik Aaryan-Kiara Advani film. There are repeated jokes at the expense of an overweight child and a hard-of-hearing pandit.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness review: It may be the Multiverse of Madness (which it is), but it is above all the Multiverse of Marvel.

Memory movie review: The film meanders in the middle, not knowing what to do with its actors, or its story of bad men and vulnerable immigrant girls.

Shalini Langer writes: Hate needs loud slogans, blaring songs and increasingly a bulldozer. Love needs no language.

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 movie review: Twice the screaming and the blasting, half the need for any real plot development.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent movie review: But for Nicolas Cage giving it all he has got, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent would collapse under its own pretensions.

A Hero movie review: A Hero is a story laid layer upon layer, an outer structure holding up the insides, the whole edifice vulnerable to one false step.

Fantastic Beasts The Secrets of Dumbledore movie review: It’s hard to shake off the knowledge that we are still in the middle of a very long, very successful commercial franchise that has long put behind where it all started.

Morbius movie review: Morbius is a cash-grab that knows what it is. Jared Leto film goes for an understated, consistent story where great powers do come with great responsibilities.

King Richard movie review: Even in the highly competitive, fishbowl world of parenting, Richard Williams stood apart. He didn't just dream big, he dreamed big twice over.

It is in this world that Gangubai Kathiawadi belonged, and beat it enough times to earn a bust with a plaque in her room in Kamathipura, a chapter in a book on the Mafia Queens of Mumbai, and a film on her.

Parallel Mothers movie review: While the Oscar-nominated Penelope Cruz is just very, very good as a woman confronting motherhood, loss and peace, Milena Smit matches her step by step despite her obvious, striking youth.

The Batman review: The Batman makes a big deal of a lot about its hero. Everything about him moves in slower motion, which by the way could partly explain the bloated 3-hour length of the film.

Licorice Pizza movie review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s most relaxed and happy film, Licorice Pizza has hardly any clouds on its horizon.

Uncharted review: Director Ruben Fleischer stuffs the film with way too many strands than he can handle, way too much digging around a dungeon, and way less mystery than the premise promises.

Marry Me movie review: One can't help but feel that this is the entirety of Jennifer Lopez's life that you are seeing on screen, as undoubtedly director Kat Coiro wants you to.

Death on the Nile movie review: With so many magnificent actors around, you just want Kenneth Branagh to get on with it. And wear a smaller moustache.

The Tragedy of Macbeth movie review: In a cast of impeccable quality, Denzel Washington is a triumph. The actor requires no trappings to be regal and is a masterclass.

Is there space for a mother who loves what her tiny tots have brought into her life, but also resents how much they have taken up of it?

The Matrix Resurrections movie review: Is choice merely an illusion, the Matrix wants us to muse. Certainly, the decision to revive Neo was dictated by studio pressures. But it’s choice that wins, not illusion.

Spider-Man No Way Home movie review: The film gives you bangs to the power of three for your buck, as Tom Holland’s Peter remains as likable and eager as ever.

West Side Story movie review: In the divisions, tensions, uncertainties and silences of Steven Spielberg's film, as much as in some of its songs, we notice our own worlds and realities.

House of Gucci movie review: Lady Gaga's Patrizia Reggiani, the woman in fur caps, leopard prints, big nails, golden jewellery, and ever-changing bouffant, consistently prevents Ridley Scott's latest from becoming overboring, overlong and over-serious.

Shalini Langer writes: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's attempts to rouse them did not really draw a response, and the “Suno Draupadi” poem drifted away without creating waves, same as the river lapping behind her.