24 (Tamil, 2016)
It is not often we get films in India that have Sci-Fi, Action, Romance, Comedy & emotional drama bundled into a single film but still not fall under this overly abused tag of ‘Masala Film’. This is where Vikram Kumar and actor-producer Suriya score by giving us a fantastic whirlwind experience over the course of 160 odd minutes.
Jacobinte Swargarajyam (Malayalam, 2016)
Jacobinte Swargarajyam attempts to be a tugging-at-the-heart emotional ride tracing the path of a close-knit family as it rides through financial calamities but it ends up to as a cheesy melodrama highlighting the amateurishness in scripting & dialogues.
Manithan (Tamil, 2016)
The levelheaded approach shown by Ahmed & Udhayanidhi in not tinkering much with the core of Jolly LLB and letting the veterans take as much limelight as its hero makes the film tick the right boxes and score as a feel-good flick with a message.
The Jungle Book (English, 2016)
This Jungle book might not be quite flawless conceptually, but the mastery from the technical team is pure enchanting wizardry which has the magic to iron out the flaws and hypnotize the viewers in a spell of audio visual enjoyment like no other!
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (English, 2016)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is an incongruity. It’s not about one superhero emulating another, not about The Dark Knight trying to wallop the Man of Steel. It’s a movie at war with itself. And it lithely loses ground. But that doesn’t mean the movie is hard to swallow – Definitely one to watch and relish the more than two hours of superhero awesomeness.