Anupama Chopra
The Hollywood Reporter India and Chairperson FCG
Anupama Chopra is a film critic, national award-winning book author and journalist. She is the editor of The Hollywood Reporter India, founder of Film Companion Studios and chairperson of the Film Critics Guild. She has covered cinema since 1993 in multiple mediums – print, television and digital. She has worked with India Today, NDTV 24x7, Star World. She has also written about cinema for various international publications including The New York Times and Sight and Sound. Anupama has authored several books, including King of Bollywood - Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema, which was featured on the Editor’s Choice list of the New York Times Sunday book review and translated into German, Indonesian and Polish. Anupama received an M.A. in journalism from Northwestern University.
All reviews by Anupama Chopra
| Director: | Destin Daniel Cretton |
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| Cast: | Tom Holland, Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, Tramell Tillman, Michael Mando, Mark Ruffalo, Liza Colón-Zayas, Marvin Jones III |
| Writer: | Erik Sommers, Chris McKenna |
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Science Fiction, Action, Adventure (English)
Tom Holland’s Most Emotional, Grounded MCU Adventure Yet
Thu, July 30 2026
Though the energy dips and flows, there is enough heart and passages of poetry to make this latest Spider-Man outing stand out from the superhero industrial complex
One of the themes in Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the singular ache of adulting. That time in your 20s when the built-in camaraderie of college is done, when circumstances impose isolation, when relationships are casually sidelined as life takes over, when work becomes the oxygen that fuels long days and lonely nights. To add to Peter Parker’s melancholy, there’s also memory loss. If you recall, in the last film Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange saves the universe from catastrophe by making the world forget Peter and his secret identity. This is done at Peter’s request and it includes his best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon) and his girlfriend MJ (Zendaya). So now, Peter is in an extreme version of Saiyaara; the woman he loves has no clue who he is.
Max, Min & Meowzaki
Family, Romance, Comedy (Hindi)
Adil's thoughtful performance and the film's insistent good intentions steer it.
Sat, July 25 2026
| Director: | Narasimhamurthy Padmakumar |
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| Cast: | Adil Hussain, Mandira Bedi, Nassar, Nafisa Ali, Medha Shankr, Vidhatri Bandi, Gitanjali Rao, Sameksha Oswal, Rupak Saluja, Siddharth Menon |
| Writer: | Narasimhamurthy Padmakumar |
The Odyssey
Adventure, Action, Fantasy (English)
A culmination of Nolan's key obsessions: the cruel passage of time, the importance of family, the yearning to go home and the struggle for control
Fri, July 17 2026
| Director: | Christopher Nolan |
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| Cast: | Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Charlize Theron, Zendaya, Benny Safdie, Jon Bernthal, John Leguizamo |
| Writer: | Christopher Nolan |
Ikka
Drama, Thriller (Hindi)
Not smart, but twisty enough to keep you guessing
Fri, July 10 2026
| Director: | Siddharth P. Malhotra |
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| Cast: | Sunny Deol, Akshaye Khanna, Tillotama Shome, Dia Mirza, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Jyoti Mukherji, Shishir Sharma, Akansha Ranjan Kapoor, Vijay Vikram Singh, Daria Bedi |
| Writer: | Suparn Verma |
Alpha
Action, Thriller (Hindi)
Perhaps women will save the day for the YRF universe — they don't here, not because they aren't good enough, but because they aren't given the right narrative ammunition.
Fri, July 3 2026
| Director: | Shiv Rawail |
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| Cast: | Alia Bhatt, Sharvari, Bobby Deol, Anil Kapoor, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Dia Mirza, Hrithik Roshan |
Welcome to the Jungle
Action, Comedy, Adventure, Crime (Hindi)
Despite the fun premise and gargantuan star cast, 'Welcome to the Jungle' is more slapdash than sparkling.
Sat, June 27 2026
| Director: | Ahmed Khan |
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| Cast: | Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Jacqueline Fernandez, Disha Patani, Raveena Tandon, Jackie Shroff, Paresh Rawal, Lara Dutta, Farida Jalal |
| Writer: | Farhad Samji |
System
Thriller (Hindi)
Not half as smart as it thinks it is, but enough of the twists land
Sat, May 23 2026
| Director: | Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari |
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| Cast: | Sonakshi Sinha, Jyothika, Ashutosh Gowariker, Adinath Kothare, Aashriya Mishra, Gaurav Pandey, Sayandeep Gupta, Preeti Agarwal Mehta, Vijayant Kohli, Diwanshu Gambhir |
| Writer: | Arun Sukumar, Harman Baweja, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Tasneem Lokhandwala |
Chand Mera Dil
Romance, Drama (Hindi)
Starts out with promise but the film nose-dives half way and becomes pure tedium
Fri, May 22 2026
| Director: | Vivek Soni |
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| Cast: | Ananya Panday, Lakshya Lalwani, Aastha Singh, Elvis Jose, Paresh Pahuja, Manish Chaudhary, Iravati Harshe, Charu Shankar, Atul Kumar, Akhil Kaimal |
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