building up elaborate plotlines for the villain’s true intentions and the hero’s real identity (which reminds one of such surprise reveals in quite a few other movies). Several of these ...

Identity movie review: Director duo Akhil Paul and Anas Khan's Identity is an action thriller that has more twists in the tale than characters. The film is engaging despite being convenient in many ...

The film moves on at a good pace, which is a positive, not because the elements of the plot move fluidly, but because the movie understands that staying too long in one place might reveal the ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: New year, new Netflix movies. 2025 is here, and with comes a whole new slate of Netflix original movies. In the years immediately after the 2020 pandemic ...

But in all of this, the filmmakers forget to make Satya/John distinctive or memorable. The movie treats the cop avatar with reverence and valorizes police brutality. Satya goes on a murdering ...

Vivek Oberoi opens up on movies being judged just their box office ... leading him to confront a formidable adversary. Review: JC Chandor, known for his compelling filmography, steps into the ...

Time may be a straight line, but memories hit you in random waves. Taken in that spirit, We Live In Time’s central gambit — to tell its love story out of chronological order — is more than ...

Based on the real-life story of World War II resistance fighter Gunnar Sønsteby, Norwegian director John Andreas Andersen’s “Number 24” is a sturdy, handsomely mounted period piece depicting the ...

Shockingly, Wicked: Part I (now streaming on VOD services like Amazon Prime Video) is only the second, possibly third, most absurd unfinished movie saga of 2024. Director Jon M. Chu (In the ...

It’s set in 1944, but feels so much further removed from recent realities that it should almost begin with “Once upon a time …” Peter Howell is a Toronto-based movie critic and a freelance ...