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CutMirchi's movie reviews examine new films across genres and regions, focusing on storytelling, direction, and impact. The coverage highlights both critical successes and failures, from stop-motion artistry to controversial debuts and genre reimaginings.
Variety's review of Whalefall, the Daniel Kraus adaptation starring Austin Abrams as a diver trapped inside a sperm whale, calls the thriller preposterous rather than terrifying.
Carey Mulligan plays a grieving ruler whose magic is born of loss, not malice. The film doesn’t ask us to forgive her. It asks us to understand.
The film wanted to be a mirror. It ended up being a reflection of nothing.
Parineeti Chopra plays a journalist who believes truth can move mountains. In Reporting Live, she doesn’t just believe it—she shouts it, over and over, like a mantra in a film that’s more sermon than story.
Critic Blue Sattai Maran has panned Jason Sanjay's directorial debut Sigma, saying the film recycles the old-school formula of his grandfather S.A. Chandrasekhar's Sattam Oru Iruttarai rather than offering anything new.
The film’s biggest flaw isn’t the script — though it’s riddled with logic gaps — but the editing. A single paragraph from the review nails it: “The editor treated the film like a TV serial.”
The film is being attacked with such vitriol that the studio has actually pivoted its marketing campaign to feature the negative reviews as a kind of badge of honour.
Sigma opens today — and with it, the curtain falls on a debut that was never meant to be.
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil swaps video game heroics for a panicked courier stumbling through Umbrella Corporation's mess. Reviewers rate it 2.5 stars, praising Austin Abrams and the creature design while flagging a thin, episodic story.
Arshad Warsi plays double duty in Jeevan Ya Bheema Con?, a whodunnit comedy built around a missing man, a supposed Rs 20 crore diamond stash, and a widow who refuses to believe any of it.