Film critic
Avinash Ramachandran of Cinema Express rated the film 3/5 and said, "An assured Dhanush stands tall in this feisty heist drama that works for the longest time, till it decides to shift gears and take a rather safe route to conformity".Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of Cinema Express gave 3/5 stars and wrote, "Ace isn't just a star vehicle.Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of Cinema Express gave 2/5 stars and wrote "Once again, this blow-hot-blow-cold treatment proves to be the undoing of Coolie, which needed more emotional heft if it wanted to be taken seriously as an action drama.Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote "With a terrific Pradeep Ranganathan in the lead, director Ashwath Marimuthu and his team have delivered a heavily preachy yet immensely entertaining film that knows its audience."Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote, "Game Changer is essentially a lot of nice segments that are stitched together in the hope that it would make a good film.Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of Cinema Express gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote " Love Marriage is a throwback to the times when people came to the theatres to watch a ‘family padam’ and stayed in their seats till the word ‘Subham’ appeared on the screen with all the characters looking at the camera with a big smile on their faces.Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of Cinema Express gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote "Maaman worked as long as it was just about the primary conflict.Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of Cinema Express gave 4/5 stars and wrote, "And when finally, the film ends with a conversation about home, family, parenting, loving, and being loved, you understand what Paranthu Po truly means.Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express gave 2/5 stars and wrote "With the strength of the film seemingly lying in comedy, the detours into emotional zones, and some serious zones are distracting at best, and infuriating at their worst.Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote, "But the fact that there was space for just one love story to bloom rather than 22 life stories to come to life is why Thandel is a lovely romance that doesn’t go all the way because it falls short of becoming an effective drama".Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote, "The Sasikumar-Simran starrer scores heavily on the humour front, and these moments also make you think of how willing audiences are just to forget everything and laugh with a film that also makes them think a lot."Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express rated the film two out of five stars and wrote that "Boat is filled with so many holes of ‘what-ifs’ and ‘could-haves’ that it has no way to go except down, and unfortunately, it does leaving no survivors."Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express rated it 2.5 out of 5 and wrote, "Apart from the supernatural, I quite liked how Ajay sets up Demonte Colony 3 with newer villains, who stay true to the horror genre.Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote "The Jr NTR film starts off really strong, only to suffer an extended downward slide that is finally salvaged by a bloody finale that is equal parts engaging and outlandish."Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express rated the film two out of five stars and wrote that "Right from the title that follows Vijay Antony's habit of choosing 'negative' names for his films to the actions of the protagonists and even the antagonists, everything feels like unfulfilled potential in Hitler.Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express rated the film 1.5/5 and wrote that "They often say third time’s the charm, but in the case of Mazhai Pidikatha Manithan, the third instalment in the Salim franchise is no charm but just a lot of harm due to the possibility of a fourth.Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express rated the film 3.5/5 stars and highlighted "Karthi and Arvind Swamy's Meiyazhagan is the cinematic equivalent of that break in the journey of life.Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express gave a rating of 1.5 out of 5, criticized Harish Shankar's work and found the screenplay too routine.Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express gave 3/5 stars and wrote "Dhanush, the actor and director, stands tall in a film powered by AR Rahman's brilliant music, and top-notch performances only to fall just short of realising its potential."Read at source
Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express rated the film three out of five stars and wrote that "The film is essentially about how dubious the field of banking is, and the ease with which our hard-earned money does more work for the bank than for us.Read at source