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Nikhila Vimal gets a minor role where she can hardly make her presence felt, while Santhi Balachandran gets to essay a moderately impactful character.

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Review of 'Baby Girl': Nivin Pauly's film falters due to a dated approach and a lack of engaging storytelling.

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Although he has a knack for keeping the narrative engaging, he also has a habit of overstating the obvious with needless expository scenes and cliched dialogues.

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Editor-turned-filmmaker Kiran Das teams up with Kabir in a film that’s a shapeshifter in the genre. The mixing of crime with psychological and supernatural elements works wonders in certain portions. But it also comes across as convenient for the writer in some difficult phases. The central character being a scriptwriter gives the film the extra license to serve up elements of fantasy amid the actual police procedural, which comes across as a cop out at some points.

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Praveen of The Hindu said that "Bougainvillea ends up as an unsatisfying psychological thriller, carrying much of the imperfections of the original story ".

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Praveen of The Hindu wrote, "Guruvayoor Ambalanadayil, which initially rides high on the novelty of the bromance and their humorous exchanges, finally ends up as quite average fare."

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Praveen of The Hindu wrote, "One wishes filmmakers do not further muddle issues about which misconceptions are galore in the society, through their half-baked handling of it".

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Praveen of The Hindu wrote that, "Some subtlety and an organic narrative could have gone a long way into turning this into a much more relevant film than it is now".

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Praveen of The Hindu wrote "Though the survival thriller part brings back memories of Bharathan's Malootty, this one takes a different path by tying the events closely to their friendship of the characters".

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Praveen of The Hindu wrote, "Once Upon a Time in Kochi is a rather forgettable attempt at creating a ‘comedy thriller’ given how none of its attempts at being funny or thrilling manage to work."

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S R Praveen of The Hindu wrote, "If hard work were the sole benchmark for a film, Aadujeevitham would rank right up there among the best.

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S R Praveen of The Hindu wrote "Urvashi’s powerhouse performance carries this haunting drama".

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Even when he gets these powers, Murali takes time to get used to it, experimenting with the extent of his powers and testing its limits, from playing around secretly with all the vessels stolen from the kitchen, to attempting to fly from a tree. The best of the superhero sequences are these initial ones and the one where he lets go at some policemen, successfully imbibing the spirit and appearance of the good old Malayalam comics. However, the climactic sequences appear slightly underwhelming, despite its aspirations and scale. The early ‘90s setting also lends itself to nostalgia-inducing references from that era, be it the fashion of those times or the introduction of the real-life actor Sudheesh, fresh from his success in Manichthirathazhu , in a key sequence.