This weekend at the movies

Here is a handy guide to all the movies that released this weekend. Read our reviews and take your pick!

12 Strong: when fiction wins over facts

Based on the true story, 12 Strong chronicles the United States’ first military response to the September 11 attacks in Afghanistan where the Taliban offered the Al-Qaeda a safe haven to plan the destruction of the World Trade Centres.

Read Deborah Cornelious’ review

here .

Darkest Hour: Churchill reincarnated

Directed by Joe Wright, the Darkest Hour chronicles the events following Neville Chamberlain’s resignation. The Nazis have occupied Belgium and the Netherlands, and France will soon follow if the Allies (especially the British) don’t act soon. Churchill, with very little popularity, is a last resort, is instated as Prime Minister.

Read Deborah Cornelious’ review

here .

 

Vodka Diaries: a string of hammy characters

Snow clad mountains of Manali, a stagey show of love between a cop and his wife, some terrible bantering and practiced poetry lead us in to the world of Vodka Diaries where ACP Dikshit (Kay Kay Menon) is investigating a murder linked to a local club called Vodka Diaries.

Read Narmata Joshi’s review here .

My Birthday Song: Dangerous liaisons

Sanjay Suri works hard at getting under the skin of the character while being perennially under the camera’s gaze. Wish he had a better cast to support him. Some spit and polish and this could have been a rare good Hindi thriller.

Read Narmata Joshi’s review here .

The Commuter: trains, conspiracies and Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson plays Michael MacCauley, an insurance salesman. He was an NYPD cop who quit the force to spend time with the family—Bryan Mills anyone? On the day he is fired, things turn worse on his train ride home, when a woman, Joanna, tells him to do a little job or horrid things will happen to his wife, Karen, and son.

Read Mini Anthikad Chhibber’s review here