The heart of this film and this franchise is Irrfan, who renders with singular elegance, the lunatic love and the ache that a parent feels. But honestly, it’s a pretty convoluted story. Here's Anupama Chopra's review of Angrezi Medium.

Anupama Chopra Film Reviews

111: Angrezi Medium | Bollywood Movie Review by Anupama Chopra | Irrfan | Radhika Madan

Sudheer is played by a wonderfully frayed, fumbling, tragi-comic Sanjay Mishra, in writer-director Hardik Mehta's film Kaamyaab. The film brings back the nostalgia with scene recreations from the 70s and 80s, and actors who lived this life, like Avtar Gill, Lilliput, Birbal, Guddi Maruti, and more.

110: Kaamyaab | Bollywood Movie Review by Anupama Chopra | Sanjay Mishra | Film Companion

Baaghi 3 is an adaptation of the 2012 Tamil film Vettai. Starring the platonic ideal of the Bollywood action hero Tiger Shroff, and Riteish Deshmukh & Shraddha Kapoor, more than action, this film needs a story to hang on to.

109: Baaghi 3 | Bollywood Movie Review by Anupama Chopra | Tiger Shroff | Shraddha Kapoor

Thappad, starring Taapsee Pannu, is the story of a single slap. The beauty is that director Anubhav Sinha, who has co-written the film with Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul, doesn’t tell this story in a strident tone.

108: Thappad | Bollywood Movie Review by Anupama Chopra | Taapsee Pannu | Anubhav Sinha

Debutant director Hitesh Kewalya, who has also written the story, tries valiantly to establish that a same-sex relationship has the same passion, heartache and insecurity. Here's Anupama Chopra's review of Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan. #ShubhMangalZyadaSaavdhan #AyushmannKhurrana #JitendraKumar

107: Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan | Bollywood Movie Review by Anupama Chopra | Ayushmann Khurrana

Debutant director Bhanu Pratap Singh takes the true incident of a cargo ship stranded at Juhu beach in Mumbai and spins a story about why it’s haunted. Here's the movie review by Anupama Chopra. #BhootTheHauntedShip #VickyKaushal #BhumiPednekar

106: Bhoot: Part One - The Haunted Ship | Bollywood Movie Review by Anupama Chopra | Vicky Kaushal

Written and directed by #ImtiazAli (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23ImtiazAli) , #LoveAajKal (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23LoveAajKal) starring Sara Ali Khan and Kartik Aaryan is a confounding film about confused people. With this film, Imtiaz who is Hindi cinema’s high priest of romance tries to dive deeper and go darker. He wants to show us the loneliness of pure ambition and the emptiness of hook-up culture. Does the film land? Listen to Anupama Chopra’s review.

105: Love Aaj Kal | Bollywood Review By Anupama Chopra | Sara Ali Khan, Kartik Aaryan | Film Companion

Director Taika Waititi, who adapted the screenplay from a novel called Caging Skies by Christine Leunens, works a miracle here. Jojo is a 10-year-old boy who lives in a small German town and spends a lot of time chatting with an imaginary buddy – Adolf Hitler.

104: Jojo Rabbit | Hollywood Movie Review by Anupama Chopra | Taika Waititi | Scarlett Johansson

Jawaani Jaaneman is an official adaptation of the 2010 Argentinian comedy Igualita A Mi which means Just Like Me. Somewhere in it is a tender, funny story about parenting, growing up, the importance of family and what a character calls ‘old-school love.’ But director Nitin Kakkar only skims the surface. Watch Anupama Chopra's review of Jawaani Jaaneman.

103: Jawaani Jaaneman | Bollywood Movie Review by Anupama Chopra | Saif Ali Khan | Tabu

Panga works on the strength of its performances and its writing. Ashwiny, co-writer Nikhil Mehrotra and Nitesh Tiwari, who has been credited with additional screenplay create a lived-in world with characters who have depth and personality. Here is Anupama Chopra's review of the Kangana Ranaut starrer.

102: Panga | Bollywood Movie Review by Anupama Chopra | Kangana Ranaut | Film Companion

Street Dancer 3D is a master-class in all the incredible things the human body can do. If the script was half as nimble as these gifted people, this film would have been a smash. Sadly, that is not the case. Watch Anupama Chopra's review of Street Dancer 3D, directed by Remo D'Souza, starring Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor, Aparshakti Khurana and more.

101: Street Dancer 3D | Bollywood Movie Review by Anupama Chopra | Varun Dhawan | Shraddha Kapoor

Just Mercy is a thoughtful meditation of the nature of compassion and cruelty. It’s a startling reminder that human beings are capable of both extremes. The film has been adapted from the memoir of Bryan Stevenson, a Harvard-trained lawyer, who moved to a small town in Alabama in 1989 to review charges against death row inmates.  Here's Anupama Chopra's review of Just Mercy, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton.

100: Just Mercy | Hollywood Movie Review by Anupama Chopra | Jamie Foxx | Brie Larson

In 1917, director and co-writer Sam Mendes, co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns and DOP Roger Deakins deliver a film that combines high impact with high artistry. Lance Corporal Blake, played by Dean-Charles Chapman and Lance Corporal Schofield, played by George MacKay have a youthful bravery that is heart-breaking. Watch Anupama Chopra's review here.

99: 1917 | Hollywood Movie Review by Anupama Chopra | Sam Mendes | Benedict Cumberbatch

Jai Mummy Di’s only redeeming factor is that it’s short. Genuinely, there is nothing else I can recommend in this film – the acting is bizarre, the writing is sloppy, the plot is incoherent and the background music is so purposefully annoying that you want to weep. Watch Anupama Chopra's review of the film here.

99: Jai Mummy Di | Bollywood Movie Review by Anupama Chopra | Film Companion

Writer-director Om Raut, co-writer Prakash Kapadia and leading man and co-producer Ajay Devgn seemed to have cracked the formula – Tanhaji, based on the life of Shivaji Maharaj’s lieutenant, is an action movie rolled into an Amar Chitra Katha comic. Here's Anupama Chopra's review of the film.

98: Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior | Bollywood Movie Review by Anupama Chopra | Ajay Devgn | Kajol

Anupama Chopra is a film critic, television anchor and book author. She has been writing about Bollywood since 1993. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Hindustan Times, The Los Angeles Times and Vogue (India). Here you can find all of her reviews for Hollywood and Bollywood movies.

hubhopper

Anupama Chopra Film Reviews

hubhopper