Mizhikal Sakshi could very well go down as a potentially well-intentioned movie that ends up being a melodramatic mush. And if it still manages to tug at your heart strings, let's have a huge round of applause for that astonishing actress aboard.
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Mayakazhcha is a bad-movie-lover's delight; it has almost everything that the masochist could dream of. Actor-hamsters, horrendous music, unspeakable set designs, shoddy camerawork, jerky editing, and to top it all a dreadfully flimsy narrative that would have been best left locked up somewhere deep and dark.
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Magic Lamp is a comedy of errors and mismatched identities that never really provides a convincing argument for its own being. For one, I am still wondering as to what on earth hit me last night and two, my head still hurts real bad.
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Andavan is as formulaic an action flick as has ever graced the silver screen. It's in reality a series of pointless fights, murders, verbal aggression and plenty of bloodshed frantically on the hunt for an interesting storyline.
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Shakespeare MA Malayalam appears maddeningly disjointed on occasions, but remarkably amusing at others. Its a mixed bag of emotions at play here that will have you hooked most of the time.
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Yawning plot holes, a convoluted finale and an attractive twist that sadly belongs somewhere else - V K Prakash's Positive suffers from an overdo of characters that are all too regular, and shocks that are all too strained.
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Not every film starts off with one of the best actors in Malayalam, mouthing outrageous lines in a fluorescent office that looks straight out of a chewing gum ad. Pachamarathanalil, Leo Thaddeus' directorial debut with a whole lot of brawn and little brain has a few other disastrous firsts to its credit as well.
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Though it's plainness is often too apparent, and ordinariness too wholly evident, Swarnam remains a film of fine craft and control, if for no other reason than its allegiance to straightforward filmmaking with a rationale drawn clear. And it certainly is not without its fair share of charms as well.
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Annan Thambi is a laugh-a-minute comic escapade that would help boost your spirits and stretch those lips into a wide grin. A delightful blend of high and low humor pulled off splendidly with style, the film is a rib tickler that aims right at your funny bone.
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De Ingottu Nokkiye remains quite true to a fraction of its celebrated tagline - it's indeed an idiotic film as it claims, but sans any remote sense of intelligence and perhaps with intentions that went for a walk down the crazy lane for all I care.
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Sathyan Anthicaud's Reflection for the Day is based on a rather childish notion of women's liberation that would find very few takers among women themselves.
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Lal Jose's Mulla is a train that terribly goes off rails on a bridge and sinks deep down without a trace. A keen hunt for a few respites amidst the wreckage turns out to be futile, as Mulla tells a tale that's as fusty as yesteryear's bread.
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