Mr & Mrs Mahi review – Indian cricketing love story is more than just a boys’ own tale
Janhvi Kapoor plays a medical student with the prospect of a pro career in the game, with Rajkummar Rao as the husband who coaches her
May 2024
Double fault: Challengers is as bad in the bedroom as it is on the tennis court
Mike McCahill
Critics might have fallen for Luca Guadagnino’s erotic tennis romp but it’s a vapid string of disappointing choices
September 2023
Jawan review – Shah Rukh Khan vehicle goes like a runaway train
With flair, Khan plays a godly badass, dandyish army vet and a sweetheart with a prospective stepdaughter in an undisciplined showcase of his talents
April 2023
Assassin Club review – trashy hitman runaround is generic multiplex filler
The Pope’s Exorcist review – demonslayer-in-chief Russell Crowe has devil of a job
February 2023
Selfiee review – stan v superstar caper is a copper-bottomed crowd pleaser
Director Raj Mehta’s professionally packaged comedy hits all the bright, wacky notes, just don’t expect anything more than sheer daftness
November 2022
Watcher review – gaslighting and murder in Romania-set Hitchcockian thriller
The Last Heist review – grim-faced Brit gangster thriller is Reservoir Bodge
September 2022
Vikram Vedha review – swaggering Bollywood remake of Tamil crime caper
The Cancer Conflict review – poignant documentary on alternative cancer therapies
Redeeming Love review – pious Bible-story western struggles for salvation
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva review – peppy superhero franchise starter
Tad the Lost Explorer and the Curse of the Mummy review – agreeably jolly animated caper
The Drowning of Arthur Braxton review – YouTuber Luke Cutforth paddles in the shallow end
August 2022
It Snows in Benidorm review – Timothy Spall soldiers on through sunshine
Laal Singh Chaddha review – a ‘Hindi Forrest Gump’, no more, no less
February 2022
My streaming gem
My streaming gem: why you should watch Karnan
The latest in our series of writers highlighting overlooked gems is a recommendation for a rousing Tamil melodrama
October 2021
The Football Monologues review – genial indie takes tips from Alan Bennett
We Need to Do Something review – doom and gloom in the bathroom
September 2021
Small World review – full-throttle trafficking tale goes off the rails
Polish director Patryk Vega’s usually slick technique fails him utterly here in this lurid story about a cop investigating a girl’s kidnapping by the Russian mafia
