The Lunchbox is a piercing critique of the Indian middle class, a commentary on the pre-existing social structures of Indian society that breed passivity. Ritesh Batra’s debute feature film is something really special.
Maleficent
Disney’s Maleficent sees an attempt to subvert well entrenched fairytale tropes, only to fall back on them in the end. However, its thematic underpinnings lift it above most recent films of its kind.
Chef
Jon Favreau’s Chef isn’t a ‘great’ film by any stretch of the imagination but it’s just so likeable: a guilty pleasure that we may scoff at in public but do indulge in privately, from time to time.