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Room Boy Review: Back Half Does the Heavy Lifting
Room Boy review: Jagan Rayan's debut thriller rides a strong hook into a better second half, after a first half that tests patience.
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Films watched closely. Praise where it lands, push-back where it's earned — never the trade-press shrug.
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Love Insurance Kompany: rom-com with a sci-fi coat and Anirudh’s playlist
An app that tells you who to love, when to break up, and how much your heartbreak is worth in insurance premiums. On paper, that's a Charlie Kaufman script. Vignesh Shivan's LIK makes it a rom-com instead, and the gamble mostly pays off.
★★★ ★★
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Maragatha Malai: a rare Tamil fantasy that doesn’t condescend
Tamil cinema produces about two genuine children's films per decade. Maragatha Malai slots into that thin category with an unpretentious period fantasy that trusts its young audience more than most mainstream entertainers do.
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Divya: A Familiar Story Saved by Its Unflinching Climax
Honour killing as a subject has been explored repeatedly in k'town, and Divya joins that queue with its heart in the right place but not enough craft to distinguish itself.
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Police Family Gets the Whodunit Formula Right
A gangster, four cops, and a dead son walk into a murder mystery. That's essentially Police Family, a film that runs on a simple but effective engine: who actually killed Vinoth?
★★★ ★★
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99/66: A horror thriller set between two flats
Setting an entire horror film inside one apartment complex is a gamble that pays off only if the writing keeps finding new corners to explore. 99/66 manages this in stretches, using the confined space and the mystery between two numbered flats to build a watchable, if uneven, thriller.
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Anomie: Bhavana’s stylish comeback vehicle
Anomie opens like it has something to prove, and for a good stretch, it does. Debutant Riyas Marath builds a serial killer procedural with genuine visual ambition, the kind of film where every frame feels storyboarded down to the last shadow.
★★★ ★★ ★
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Yaarra Antha Paiyan Review: The rough cut of ambition
Writing, directing, producing, and starring in your own film takes guts. Paul Raj clearly has no shortage of that. Yaarra Antha Paiyan Nanthan Antha Paiyan is the kind of project where one man's conviction carries everything, for better and worse.
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Second Case of Seetharam: A Process-Driven Procedural
There's a version of this film that opens with a cop slamming a table and swearing to catch the killer. This one opens with paperwork, doubt, and a body count that keeps climbing. That restraint defines Second Case of Seetharam, a procedural set in the misty Malenadu hills where the tension comes from process, not spectacle.
★★★ ★★ ★
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Arivaan: Slow burn that earns its final act
Set a crime thriller in Neyveli's lignite country and you've already got atmosphere for free. Arivaan uses that setting well, even if the investigation at its center takes too long to justify the patience it demands.
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Love Share Subscribe: love story loses signal in Kashi
The first half of Love Share Subscribe (LSS) writes a cheque the second half can't cash. What starts as a passable college romance between a studious guy and a wealthy North Indian eventually wanders into Kashi and forgets why it went there.
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Aishwarya Arjun holds a slow road trip together
Arjun Sarja has called Seetha Payanam a gift to his daughter, and the film does feel like one: made with affection, wrapped with care, not entirely sure who else it's for.