The coming week will be dominated by two films releasing on Wednesday and Friday. The Matrix revival and 83 hit movie screens and grabbed attention for obvious reasons. as Keanu Reeves everything else backfires and Ranveer singh Neo and Kapil weave their magic as Dev.
But that doesn’t mean there aren’t any other good movies and shows to focus on. Being Ricardo (Amazon Prime Video) and Don’t Look Up (Netflix) offer stellar casts, while Emily in Paris (Netflix) for your guilty pleasure has a second season.
83: In theaters
Still from 83.
Are you a cinema lover and also a cricket lover? If you have given affirmative consent, then pick up your phone and book your tickets for Kabir Khan’s Khel Drama 83. This movie makes you experience the historic victory of the Indian cricket team in the 1983 World Cup. In this, Ranveer Singh plays the role of former Indian captain Kapil Dev. Going by the reviews, the film has everything to keep you hooked throughout, from emotions, drama, Bollywood-style song and dance to the thrill of a cricket match on the edge. Appreciate every character of the film, Indian Express‘ Film critic Shubhra Gupta wrote in her review, “Ranveer Singh vanishes in his Kapil Dev, even as each of Kapil’s freaks has his own moment in this faithful recreation of India’s 1983 World Cup victory. Are being given.”
Atrangi Re: Disney Plus Hotstar
A still of Atrangi Re featuring Sara Ali Khan and Akshay Kumar, (Photo: Akshay Kumar/Instagram)
Akshay Kumar, Sara Ali Khan and Bow Lead the cast of this relationship drama helmed by Aanand L Rai. It is the story of Vishu (Dhanush), a Tamil boy who is forced to marry a girl from Bihar, Rinku (Sara), who falls in love with another man (Akshay). Both Rinku and Vishu decide to go their separate ways but things get complicated when Rinku also falls in love with Vishu. AR Rahman’s music is like a cherry on top.
Read the review of Atrangi Re here.
Matrix Resurrection: In theaters
A still from The Matrix Resurrection. (Photo: Warner Bros.)
Helmed by director Lana Wachowski, the sci-fi film brings back Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss in the lead roles of Neo and Trinity. Priyanka Chopra She has joined the franchise as an adult sati. Film critic Shalini Langer of The Indian Express gave the film a 3.5-star rating and wrote, “Twenty years later, The Matrix feels fresh in its exquisite technical finesse, and raises even more pertinent issues, as Elon Musk does to us.” asks us to think about our realities, while Mark Zuckerberg tells us to live the many.”
Read Matrix Resurrection review here.
Emily in Paris 2: Netflix
Lily Collins at Emily in Paris. (Photo: Emily in Paris/Instagram)
The romantic comedy, Emily in Paris, starring Lily Collins in the lead role, was a hit among Netflix audiences. Now its second season promises to be equally entertaining for the fans of the romantic genre. This season, Emily (Lily) continues to struggle as an American in France while trying to deal with the complexities of her love life. indianexpress.comSampada Sharma of the show wrote in a review of the show, “Emily in Paris is not the show where every shot, or camera movement carries subtext, but it is the show that feeds your fondness for guilty pleasures and in a world where some Just like Money Heist has developed a ‘cult’, Emily in Paris doesn’t deserve that much hate anyway.”
Read the review of Emily in Paris 2.
Minnal Murali: Netflix
Tovino Thomas in Minnal Fife. (Photo: Tulsi Joseph/Instagram)
The multilingual superhero drama starring Basil Joseph stars Tovino as Thomas Jayson, a tailor who gains special powers after being struck by lightning. He uses his powers to save his city. Film critic Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express couldn’t stop smiling after watching the film and called it a film that “is aware of its superhero-ness, yet never loses sight of the fact that it is set in a real place. Is.”
Read Minnal Murali review here.
Being Ricardo: Amazon Prime Video
Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos.
Being the Recorded, available on Amazon Prime Video, is set to show a week behind the scenes of the 1950s TV comedy I Love Lucy in the lives of Lucille Ball and real-life husband and co-star Desi Arnaz, played by Javier Bardem has gone. Reviews of the film have been mostly positive. Rohan Nahar of indianexpress.com wrote, “Amazon Prime Video’s massively entertaining Oscar contender saw Nicole Kidman deliver Aaron Sorkin’s Rat-a-like dialogue.”
Read the Being the Ricardos review.
Don’t Watch Above: Netflix
Leonardo DiCaprio plays an astronomer in Don’t Look Up.
Leonardo DiCaprio in Adam McKay’s satire and Jennifer Lawrence in the lead. The film revolves around two astronauts, Dr. Randall Mindy (DiCaprio) and Kate DiBiaski (Lawrence), who try to warn people about the impending planet-killer comet on Earth, but no one hits them. does not believe. Meryl Streep plays the role of the President of the United States of America in the film. Rohan Nahar of Indianexpress.com called the film a “sharp satire”. In his review, he wrote, “Even at an alarmingly close to two and a half hours, Don’t Look Up plays on a clip. Time for McKay to insert a parallel plot line about Dr. Mindy’s personal life.” Mil hai, which remarkably doesn’t come across as shoehorned in. In fact, it is because of this that the film turns in its final moments. Something that is described as genuinely belligerent and gentle. can be done.”
Rocky: In theaters
Rocky releases in theaters on 23 December.
Arun Matheswaran directed Rocky presents the idea that violence is everywhere around you, now you can ignore it but you cannot escape it. But this film is definitely not for the faint-hearted. Get ready to see some gore in this where you have to choose the lesser evil. There is no hero for the root. Indianexpress.com’s Manoj Kumar R called Rocky “a bold, relentless depiction of the senselessness of violence”.
Shyam Singha Roy: In theaters
Nani starrer Telugu drama Shyam Singha Roy Taxiwala fame is directed by Rahul Sankrityan and written by Jung Satyadev. The film also stars Sai Pallavi, Kriti Shetty, Madonna Sebastian, Jisshu Sengupta and Murali Sharma. It features Nani in two different avatars – Vasu, a normal film director, and Shyam Singha Roy, a writer-turned-politician in Kolkata. At the heart of this revolutionary story is the love story of star-crossed lovers.
Read Shyam Singha Roy’s review here.
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Travelers: YouTube
Dilip Kumar and Usha Kiran in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Musafir.
starring Dilip Kumar, Kishore KumarKeshato Mukherjee, Suchitra Sen and Nirupa Roy, Musafir was the directorial debut of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Mukherjee dealt with the life of the common man and presented them in the simplest way possible. Sampada Sharma of Indianexpress.com wrote in his column Bollywood Rewind“Musafir, written by Mukherjee and Ritwik Ghatak, is director Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s debut film, which takes you through a series of emotions through three stories set inside the same house.”
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: YouTube
A still from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
The 2018 release Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, starring debutante directors Bob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey alongside Rodney Rothman, is one of Marvel’s best. It won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2018. Anvita Singh of Indianexpress.com in her column Hollywood Rewind, writes that the film delivered an experience where you “felt like you went into some kind of 3-D comic book where you could reach over and almost touch that part of the universe.” So, if you’ve been enjoying the brilliance of the recently released Spider-Man: No Way Home or are waiting to see it, check out Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
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