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  Netflix is doubling down on its commitment to South Indian storytelling, releasing an average of one new film every week across Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam cinema for the rest of the year. Building on the momentum of a record-breaking…

Suriya has spent the last few years taking on roles that demanded intensity, scale or a certain dramatic weight. Vishwanath And Sons takes a different route. Here, he is relaxed. Stylish. Occasionally playful. And clearly comfortable.…

Some real-life stories arrive on screen with all the ingredients of a conventional crowd-pleaser. G.D. Naidu's life certainly has enough of them: invention, ambition, setbacks, controversy and an unusual determination to keep moving when…

Arun Matheswaran has never been a filmmaker who believes action needs to be polished or comfortable. After Rocky, Saani Kaayidham and Captain Miller, he returns with DC, another hard-hitting action drama that carries his familiar taste for…

There is a strange feeling that arrives before Jana Nayagan even begins. You know this is a Vijay film. You also know it is supposed to be the last one. That changes the way you watch almost everything. The title card lands differently.…

Sometimes a film knows exactly what it wants to say. Arulvaan is one such film. Directed by Ganesh Vinayakan, the movie returns him to a familiar creative partnership with Arulnithi after Thagaraaru, but the approach this time is quieter…

Some romantic comedies arrive with a very serious point to make. Anbe Diana takes a different route. It puts love, family disagreements, cultural differences and social prejudice into the same room, then lets comedy do much of the talking.…

There is something instantly familiar about Idhayam Murali. The school crushes. The awkward teenage romance. The friends who seem to have nothing better to do than spend the entire day together. The confusion around love. The things you…

Lakshmikanthan Kolai Vazhakku takes a different route. The film begins with a crime story, but its real interest lies in what happens after the investigation starts raising uncomfortable questions about justice, punishment and the value of…

Not every crime comedy needs a twist in its back pocket. Con City figures that out early, and it's better for it. Directed by Harish Durairaj, the film follows a group of scammers whose separate lives collide through a chain of accidents,…