Soumya Srivastava is Entertainment Editor at Hindustan Times. She writes about movies and TV because what else is there to life anyway.
Articles by Soumya Srivastava
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise brings insane fun
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise will do anything to keep you entertained and his latest summer blockbuster is proof.
Published on Jul 10, 2023 03:25 PM IST
Citadel review: Priyanka Chopra is best thing about this very average series
Citadel review: Priyanka Chopra and Richard Madden's new series is sadly not attractive enough to justify building an entire universe of this.
Published on Apr 27, 2023 07:48 PM IST
Jubilee review: Sidhant Gupta delivers star-making performance
Jubilee review: Vikramaditya Motwane's new series is long and sometimes a little exhausting. However, it is greatly helped by Sidhant Gupta's performance.
Published on Apr 07, 2023 01:41 PM IST
Rocket Boys season 2 review: An underwhelming return despite perfect Jim Sarbh
Rocket Boys season 2 review: A couple bad performances and some weak writing make this season of hit SonyLiv show a rather underwhelming watch.
Published on Mar 17, 2023 11:22 AM IST
Mili movie review: Janhvi Kapoor's survival thriller has a warm heart
Mili movie review: Janhvi Kapoor plays the perfect girl from Dehradun who gets locked in a freezer overnight even as his family looks for her.
Updated on Nov 04, 2022 05:58 PM IST
The White Lotus 2 review: Sex-fuelled drama skewers the rich once again
The White Lotus 2 review: Mike White adds adultery to the mix as more rich people arrive for a new season of chaos and murder.
Updated on Nov 01, 2022 10:36 PM IST
Four More Shots Please season 3 review: Less cringe, more mature, still bad
Four More Shots Please season 3 review: Maanvi Gagroo, Bani, Kriti Kulhari and Sayani Gupta-starrer begins so well but jumps the shark at episode 8.
Published on Oct 21, 2022 04:57 PM IST
Maja Ma review: The most Ayushmann Khurrana movie without an Ayushmann Khurrana
Maja Ma movie review: Madhuri Dixit stars as lead in Prime Video's latest social comedy about a woman in closet.
Published on Oct 06, 2022 02:05 PM IST
Blonde review: A nightmarish, unsettling reimagining of Marilyn Monroe's life
Blonde review: There is very little truth and still so much reality in Andrew Dominik's not-really-a-biopic on Marilyn Monroe.
Updated on Sep 29, 2022 10:35 PM IST
Where The Crawdads Sing movie review: Dreamy, gorgeous and still so dull
Where The Crawdads Sing movie review: Abject poverty, child abuse, and murder plots have no reason to look this pretty.
Updated on Sep 16, 2022 10:07 PM IST
House of the Dragon episode 3 review: Matt Smith shines as an action star
House of the Dragon season 1 episode 3 review: Matt Smith emerges as the shining star of the episode in just the final few minutes.
Published on Sep 05, 2022 12:27 PM IST
Beast movie review: Idris Elba fights a lion and common sense in survival drama
Beast movie review: Idris Elba stars in the latest paint-by-numbers survival thriller from Universal Pictures.
Updated on Sep 02, 2022 04:15 PM IST
House of the Dragon episode 2 review: After a violent pilot, show catches breath
House of the Dragon episode 2 review: In a slow-paced second episode, the Game of Thrones prequel takes a necessary breather.
Published on Aug 29, 2022 07:06 AM IST
House of the Dragon ep 1 review: GOT prequel adopts its worst qualities
House of the Dragon episode 1 review: HBO's prequel to Game of Thrones left a bad first impression with too much violence and gore.
Published on Aug 22, 2022 07:46 AM IST
Masaba Masaba season 2 review: Masaba Gupta proves herself the Neena Ji of now
Masaba Masaba season 2 review: It's Masaba Gupta's turn to shine in Netflix's frothiest desi show.
Published on Jul 30, 2022 07:00 PM IST
Stranger Things season 4 finale: An almost-perfect, coolest season ending
Stranger Things returned on Netflix on Friday with the final two episodes of season 4. Apart from crashing the app for a short while, it also reminded us how good a great teenage-adventure show can feel if made right.
Published on Jul 03, 2022 06:31 AM IST
Janhit Mein Jaari review: One of the most hilarious movies of the year, ruined
Janhit Mein Jaari review: Nushrratt Bharuccha's latest movie kicks off with such promise and delight, it's a shame to witness it dig itself into a hole by the second half.
Published on Jun 10, 2022 05:17 PM IST
Samrat Prithviraj review: No one seems human in this misguided ‘feminist’ epic
Samrat Prithviraj movie review: Akshay Kumar plays a brave, righteous, benevolent and feminist king in one of his most lacklustre and inorganic roles ever.
Published on Jun 03, 2022 04:59 PM IST
Stranger Things 4 review: Netflix's OG blockbuster gets its scariest season yet
Stranger Things season 4 Vol 1 review: Duffer Brothers prepare to say goodbye and go out with a scary, spooky bang in this first part of the final season of Netflix's first big hit.
Published on May 28, 2022 06:32 AM IST
Modern Love Mumbai review: Dhruv Sehgal, Hansal's stories are worth everything
Modern Love Mumbai review: Amazon Prime Video has given India an anthology populated with more hits than misses.
Published on May 13, 2022 02:52 PM IST
Thar movie review: Anil Kapoor outshines protagonist son in half-baked Western
Thar movie review: Anil Kapoor outshines son Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor in the film, which begins as a Western set in Rajasthan but soon descends into torture porn genre.
Published on May 06, 2022 05:36 PM IST
Mai: Give Sakshi Tanwar all the web series, she deserves it more than any ‘star’
Sakshi Tanwar plays a mother out for truth and vengeance in Netflix's latest web series. Her pitch-perfect performance establishes her as one of the better actors in the Hindi TV-movie world.
Published on Apr 19, 2022 06:47 AM IST
Death on the Nile review: Predictable affair too dull for post-Knives Out world
Death on the Nile movie review: Kenneth Branagh's latest Agatha Christie whodunit stars Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Emma Mackey and others.
Published on Feb 11, 2022 06:40 PM IST
Rocket Boys review: SonyLiv finally delivers a great successor to Scam 1992
Rocket Boys review: Jim Sarbh and Ishwak Singh headline SonyLiv’s brilliant and beautiful new series on the lives of pioneering Indian scientists Dr Homi J Bhabha and Dr Vikram Sarabhai.
Published on Feb 04, 2022 07:00 PM IST
Decoupled: There can always be well-written insufferable people, Arya isn't it
Decoupled: Manu Joseph and Hardik Mehta's new Netflix show has got the internet divided about the acceptability of insufferable know-it-alls.
Updated on Dec 22, 2021 09:10 PM IST
Aarya 2: Sushmita Sen finally breaks bad, but takes 7 episodes to get there
Aarya season 2: Sushmita Sen returns as Aarya Sareen in the second season of Disney+ Hotstar's crime drama.
Published on Dec 12, 2021 05:54 PM IST
Red Notice movie review: Dwayne, Ryan, Gal have made Race 4 with $200 million
Red Notice movie review: Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot's star power is not enough to lift this action comedy from the abyss of mediocrity.
Updated on Nov 12, 2021 07:08 PM IST
Eternals movie review: Hey, at least it’s not as bad as Black Widow!
Eternals movie review: Angelina Jolie, Gemma Chan, Richard Madden are unimpressive in Chloe Zhao's Marvel debut.
Updated on Nov 05, 2021 06:27 PM IST
Dune movie review: Thrill of a theme park and also the emotional depth of one
Dune movie review: Denis Villeneuve's third sci-fi film is also is only disappointing one yet. With a star-studded cast, he is unable to make you care about any of them.
Updated on Oct 22, 2021 08:39 PM IST
Sardar Udham movie review: Vicky Kaushal delivers performance of a lifetime
Sardar Udham movie review: Shoojit Sircar proves that slice of life is not the only thing he is great at. Vicky Kaushal is spectacular.
Published on Oct 16, 2021 12:55 AM IST