Film Reviews – Page 51 – Sudhir Srinivasan

The Accountant: An asset turned liability

For a while, The Accountant trundles on with a heavy sense of purpose, as though burdened by its own awareness of what it seemingly believes to be brilliance. A protagonist, Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck ironically asked to be emotionless), has a disorder that’s revealed through quick flashbacks. “I’d prefer not to label it,” says the…

The Magnificent Seven: Competent, but lacks firepower

What he does do though is portray the beauty inherent in the languor of life in a Western movie… in its enviable, now-obsolete simplicity.

Robinson Crusoe: Cast Away

It must be incredibly tough to wreck some premises—the premise of a shipwrecked man getting marooned in an island, for instance. I am convinced that it must have involved long nights of hard work to make a film as dull as Robinson Crusoe from a story that bursts with adventure, and draws on the time-tested man…

For the love of god!

This week’s column for Metro Plus on how it is quite rare to spot atheistic characters in Tamil cinema

Sully: Captain America

Thanks to Sully, I now know — as much as there is to be known safely at least — what it must be like to be part of a incapacitated plane.