Chevittorma
Leo Thaddeus opens his camera on hands, not faces. A caregiver's hands, folding a cloth, adjusting a pillow,…
Malayalam
Aali
Mulla, a sound engineer, meets Ebby Mathew, an Ayurveda doctor from Dubai, near the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border, and…
Unmadham
Kunchacko Boban walks into the frame as CPO Shelly, and for a moment, the Malayalam crime-thriller terrain feels…
LURK
The premise arrives with a growl, a man-eating tiger has turned a threatened landscape into a hunting ground,…
Aroopi
There is a particular kind of dread that settles in when a horror film opens with a sprawling…
Ananthan Kaadu
The opening frames of Jiyen Krishnakumar's *Ananthan Kaadu* drop us into a politically charged 1990s Thiruvananthapuram, where a…
Makaran
From the Film and Television Institute of India comes a picture that feels less like a debut feature…
Dose
The first suspicious death at the hospital lands with clinical precision, no melodrama, just a body that doesn't…
Drishyam 3
Georgekutty sits in a room that has been his prison and his fortress for three films now. When…
Athiradi
The opening sequence of Athiradi doesn't creep toward its premise, it charges. Samkutty, played with wired enthusiasm by…
Angam Attahasam
Ajay Chandran is 24, caught in Trivandrum's violent underworld, and the trailer's promise of a raw gangster drama…
Revolver Rinko
The children of a rural Kerala village have decided they are going to make a superhero film, and…
Dridam
SI Vijay Radhakrishnan's first morning at the quiet hill station police station is almost boring, until human remains…
The Worst He Can Say Is.
The title itself is a dare. "The Worst He Can Say Is" implies a confrontation, a moment of…
Derby
Arjun Divakaran doesn't walk into the campus; he charges into it, a coiled spring of ambition and adolescent…
Oru Durooha Saahacharyathil
The stranger enters Sethu's home and the quiet geometry of his domestic life collapses into suspicion. What follows…
Bharathanatyam 2 Mohiniyattam
The second half of *Bharathanatyam 2 Mohiniyattam* snaps into focus with an ensemble confrontation that carries real menace,…
Pallichattambi
The church sends Krishna Pillai, also known as Christopher, into Kaniyaar, a village already simmering with communist and…
Madhuvidhu
Amrut Raj walks into yet another bride-search meeting, the weight of his all-male household pressing on his shoulders.…
Thudakkam
The frame belongs to Vismaya Mohanlal, but the weight of expectation belongs to the surname she carries. Jude…
Ottam Thullal
G. Marthandan's Ottam Thullal arrives with the comforting aroma of a village festival, predictable, warm, and eager to…
Pluto
The alien appears without warning in a sleepy Kerala village, and the first reaction from a local is…
Varavu
The opening act of Shaji Kailas’s *Varavu* drops us into a hillside settlement where a single incident shatters…
I, Nobody
A government employee, Rajeevan, steps into a bank on an ordinary day. He witnesses a robbery he was…
the flower she left me
For a film titled *The Flower She Left Me*, the woman at its center is conspicuously absent from…
Uyir
The camera lingers on the dark mouth of a well in a Kerala-Karnataka border town, and then on…
Balan - The Boy
A mother grips her young son’s hand as they flee into the night, their names and identities dissolving…
Mollywood Times
A teenager from Kuttikkanam stares at cinema the way a believer stares at a shattered idol, with the…
അവിചാരിതം
A Malayalam film arriving with minimal advance publicity, Avicharitham moves through the marketplace like a quiet shadow, no…
Karakkam
Sreenath Bhasi finds himself trapped between comedic timing and supernatural dread, a balancing act that defines Karakkam's ambitious…
Kattalan
A man walks into a room where violence isn't a choice, it's currency. Kattalan arrives as an action-thriller…
Vaazha II
Four young men labeled as losers retaliate against their tormentors in a haze of chaotic energy and constant…