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: | Christopher McQuarrie |
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| Cast: | Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Mariela Garriga, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer |
| Writer: | Christopher McQuarrie, Erik Jendresen |
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Action, Adventure, Thriller (English)
As Flawed as it is Fabulous
Fri, May 16 2025
'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning' might not save cinema, but Tom Cruise will risk death trying. And there is something noble about that.
Over the course of nearly three hours, Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning goes from dull and ponderous to exhilarating and emotional and back again so seamlessly that when it finishes, you’re exhausted but also inspired and grateful that a 62-two-year superstar is willing to hang off the side of a flying plane just to entertain you. This film might not save cinema, but Tom Cruise will risk death trying. And there is something noble about that. Once again, as agent Ethan Hunt, Cruise is saving the world. Early in this film, we are told, truth is vanishing, war is coming. An artificial intelligence called the Entity has taken control of the internet and of nuclear sites around the world (including India). The fate of every single person on the planet depends on Hunt (enabled by his trusty team) being able to lock two devices together, which will somehow disable the Entity (these look so basic that I wondered if the Entity is as intelligent as everyone thinks it is).
Raid 2
Drama, Crime (Hindi)
The film struggles to recapture the suspenseful cat-and-mouse dynamic that made the 2018 original so compelling
Thu, May 1 2025
| Director: | Raj Kumar Gupta |
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| Cast: | Ajay Devgn, Ritesh Deshmukh, Vaani Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, Rajat Kapoor, Sushil Dahiya, Tamannaah Bhatia, Amit Sial, Supriya Pathak |
| Writer: | Raj Kumar Gupta, Karan Vyas, Ritesh Shah, Jaideep Yadav |
Ground Zero
Action, Thriller, War (Hindi)
succeeds in its humanitarian perspective but struggles to balance military heroism with the nuanced portrayal of Kashmir's "fearsome fault lines" and "generational trauma" that continue to this day.
Fri, April 25 2025
| Director: | Tejas Vijay Deoskar |
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| Cast: | Emraan Hashmi, Mukesh Tiwari, Sai Tamhankar, Zoya Hussain, Lalit Prabhakar, Hanun Bawra, Punit Tiwari, Satya Prakash, Aeklavya Tomer, Abhay Singh |
| Writer: | Sanchit Gupta, Priyadarshee Srivastava |
Jewel Thief - The Heist Begins
Action, Thriller (Hindi)
This heist film fails to deliver the essential ingredients that make the genre enjoyable.
Fri, April 25 2025
| Director: | Robby Grewal, Kookie Gulati |
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| Cast: | Saif Ali Khan, Jaideep Ahlawat, Nikita Dutta, Kunal Kapoor, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Gagan Arora, Dorendra Singh Loitongbam, Peter Muxka Manuel, Ayaz Khan, Sumit Gulati |
Kesari: Chapter 2
Drama, History (Hindi)
Prioritizes impact over historical authenticity and occasionally lacks persuasive plotting, it intermittently succeeds in telling the riveting story of a man who stood against an empire
Fri, April 18 2025
| Director: | Karan Singh Tyagi |
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| Cast: | Akshay Kumar, R. Madhavan, Ananya Panday, Mark Bennington, Sammy Jonas Heaney, Rohan Verma, Alexx O'Nell, Regina Cassandra, Simon Paisley Day, Amit Sial |
| Writer: | Amritpal Singh Bindra, Karan Singh Tyagi |
Jaat
Action, Drama (Hindi)
All the sound and fury ultimately signifies little, as even the mighty "dhai kilo ka haath" needs a more absorbing story.
Fri, April 11 2025
| Director: | Gopichand Malineni |
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| Cast: | Sunny Deol, Randeep Hooda, Saiyami Kher, Regina Cassandra, Vineet Kumar Singh, Ramya Krishnan, Jagapati Babu, Vinay Varma, Zarina Wahab, Upendra Limaye |
Ponman
Drama (Malayalam)
Ponman avoids sermons, instead crafting a high-stakes drama where “heroes and villains blur.”
Sat, March 29 2025
| Director: | Jyothish Shankar |
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| Cast: | Basil Joseph, Lijomol Jose, Sajin Gopu, Anand Manmadhan, Deepak Parambol, Rajesh Sharma, Jaya Kurup, Thankam Mohan, Sandhya Rajendran, Kiran Peethambaran |
| Writer: | Justin Mathew, G.R. Indugopan |
L2: Empuraan
Action, Crime, Thriller (Malayalam)
Mohanlal’s magnetic presence and the film’s bold strokes make it a flawed but thrilling chapter in this franchise.
Fri, March 28 2025
| Director: | Prithviraj Sukumaran |
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| Cast: | Mohanlal, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Abhimanyu Singh, Manju Warrier, Tovino Thomas, Indrajith Sukumaran, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Saikumar, Sachin Khedekar, Nandhu |
| Writer: | Murali Gopy |
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