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Kshitij Rawat

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Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders (2025) 79% EDIT “While it starts sluggish and even a little dull, Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders quickly finds its stride, and by the end, it proves to be almost as good as the original.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Homebound (2025) 97% EDIT “Ghaywan demonstrates again that he is not merely a filmmaker. He is our conscience. Yes, it is depressing. But that is because it holds up a mirror to a country whose indifference and hostility towards its most marginalised citizens is all too real. ” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Maalik (2025) 23% EDIT “ Rajkummar Rao performs well. But it is more muscle memory than anything else. He’s good nearly by default, not because the script presents him with anything interesting to work with.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Jul 11, 2025 Full Review Maa (2025) 14% EDIT “Maa slips from haunting to hokey so often, it’s hard to tell whether you’re watching a tale of generational injustice or a supernatural soap opera made by people who binge-watched Tumbbad and The Nun in the same weekend.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Jun 27, 2025 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% EDIT “Anchored by a heartbreakingly earnest performance from Alfie Williams as Spike, and featuring a haunting turn from Jodie Comer, the film trades in apocalyptic bombast for quiet dread — until, of course, it doesn’t. ” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Jun 21, 2025 Full Review Housefull 5 (2025) 13% EDIT “There are entire sequences that are shot only so the audience can leer at them [female characters]. The sexualisation is so constant that it almost feels like a theme.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Jun 9, 2025 Full Review Kesari Veer (2025) EDIT “Watching Kesari Veer feels like getting yelled at by a very patriotic uncle who’s just discovered drone shots and CGI flames. The dialogue sounds like it was written by an AI chatbot that was trained only on Indian WhatsApp forwards.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) May 23, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% EDIT “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning tries to end things with a bang (several, actually) but somewhere between, it nearly drowns in its own ambition. Still, there is a thrill in the spectacle, and a surprising melancholy undercurrent that sticks.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) May 19, 2025 Full Review Raid 2 (2025) 33% EDIT “...for every good line, there are five grim monologues and a noisy background music insisting that something dramatic just happened. Spoiler: it didn’t.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) May 1, 2025 Full Review Thudarum (2025) EDIT “Mohanlal is as usual brilliant, but the star of the movie is Prakash Varma, who plays George with a chilling, almost reptilian calmness that somehow feels even more terrifying than full-blown rage.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% EDIT “This film doesn’t hurry; it simmers. It leans into the atmosphere, into the silence. I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that Sinners is the best movie of 2025 so far.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh (2025) 39% EDIT “The film oversimplifies and overexplains as if we’re toddlers. It evocative at times. But it is not revolutionary cinema. Not even close.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Apr 18, 2025 Full Review Sikandar (2025) 5% EDIT “Sikandar is not a bad movie by Indian blockbuster standards. But, well, it is pretty bad.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Mar 31, 2025 Full Review Empuraan - Lucifer 2 (2025) EDIT “Nowhere near as nuanced and layered as Lucifer, L2: Empuraan is still a much better action-thriller than what we usually get in India. The political messaging is quite brave even for a Malayalam film and just subtle enough to miss many small minds.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Mar 27, 2025 Full Review Little Siberia (2025) EDIT “On paper, it presents itself as a crime thriller about a pastor guarding a meteorite in a small town in Finland, but in reality, it is a strange, existential fever dream wrapped in black comedy and snow.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Mar 24, 2025 Full Review The Electric State (2025) 14% EDIT “...the story stumbles between poignant and painfully generic as if the writers couldn’t decide if they wanted to make an existential think piece or a robot-smashing blockbuster. So they just… kind of did both. Badly.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Mar 17, 2025 Full Review Chhaava (2025) 29% EDIT “Akshaye Khanna’s portrayal of Aurangzeb is a silver lining, though. I like the restrained menace he brought to the role. But that’s all. Chhaava is a hard movie to recommend. ” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Deva (2025) 46% EDIT “I will be honest — I was expecting another dumb big action-thriller starring a superhuman cop. You know, the kind we’ve seen Bollywood churn out over and over again. But Deva was a pleasant surprise.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Jan 31, 2025 Full Review UI (2024) EDIT “UI comes across less like a film and more like some kind of chaotic fever dream that you got after a pretty heavy night of drinking.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Dec 22, 2024 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% EDIT “What saves the film is the same stuff that worked for the original: Phoenix’s performance, cinematography, and soundtrack. Also, the psychological thriller elements in the movie were as compelling as it was in the first one. ” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Oct 4, 2024 Full Review Trap (2024) 56% EDIT “Trap is an entertaining, though flawed thriller. Hartnett’s work alone here is worth the ticket price (or your time should you choose to watch it later on a streaming service).” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Aug 2, 2024 Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 78% EDIT “A more honest title would be something like Deadpool & Wolverine: A Parade of Familiar Faces and Other Superficial Thrills. When the biggest draw of your movie is who shows up for a surprise, perhaps it is time to reconsider your approach to filmmaking.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Twisters (2024) 75% EDIT “These jaw-dropping visuals made me glad I was half a world away, where tornadoes are just a headline in international news. No recent film captures the sheer awe-inspiring power of nature quite like Twisters.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Jul 19, 2024 Full Review The Exorcism (2024) 26% 1/5 EDIT “Even an actor of Russell Crowe's calibre is not enough to elevate the film beyond mediocrity.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Jul 5, 2024 Full Review Despicable Me 4 (2024) 55% 2/5 EDIT “You will find something to enjoy here — just don’t expect anything more than the usual fare.” – Lifestyle Asia (India) Jul 5, 2024 Full Review
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