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9-COLD PURSUIT (15+) (ACTION/CRIME/DRAMA) 5-SITA (PG-15) (TELGU) OASIS JUFFAIR LIAM NEESON, EMMY ROSSUM, LAURA DERN KAJAL AGGARWAL, BELLAMKONDA SRINIVAS, SONU SOOD DAILY AT: 1.45 + 6.45 + 11.45 PM DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 3.45 + 9.00 PM 1-MA (15+) (THRILLER/HORROR) NEW OCTAVIA SPENCER, MISSI PYLE, DIANA SILVERS 10-DUMBO (PG) (ADVENTURE/DRAMA/FAMILY) 6-CHANDIGARH AMRITSAR CHANDIGARH (PG-13) DAILY AT: 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 PM COLIN FARRELL, MICHAEL KEATON, DANNY DEVITO (PUNJABI/COMEDY/ROMANTIC) DAILY AT (VIP): 2.00 + 7.00 + 12.00 MN DAILY AT: 7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 PM SARGUN MEHTA, GIPPY GREWAL DAILY AT: 1.30 + 6.45 + 12.00 MN 2-NGK (PG-15) (TAMIL) NEW 11-WONDER PARK (PG) (ANIMATION/ADVENTURE/ SURIYA, SAI PALLAVI, RAKUL PREET, JAGAPATHI BABU COMEDY) FROM THURSDAY 30TH 10.30 PM ONWARDS BRIANNA DENSKI, JENNIER GARNER, KEN HUDSON SAAR DAILY AT: 11.45 AM + 2.45 + 5.45 + 8.45 + 11.45 PM CAMPBELL DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 12.45 + 2.45 + 4.45 PM 1-MA (15+) (THRILLER/HORROR) NEW 3-ALADDIN (PG) (ADVENTURE) OCTAVIA SPENCER, MISSI PYLE, DIANA SILVERS 12-GOODLAND (PG-15) (THRILLER/CRIME/DRAMA) WILL SMITH, NAOMI SCOTT, MENA MASSOUD DAILY AT: 7.30 + 9.45 + 12.00 MN MATT WEISS, CINNAMON SCHULTZ, SARA CAROLYNN DAILY AT:12.45 + 3.30 + 6.15 + 9.00 + 11.45 PM KENNEDY DAILY AT (KIDS CINEMA): 11.45 AM + 2.30 + 5.15 + 8.00 + 2-RED JOAN (15+) (DRAMA/THRILLER/BIOGRAPHY) 10.45 PM DAILY AT: 6.45 + 8.30 + 10.15 + 12.00 MN NEW DAILY AT (3D): 12.15 + 3.00 + 5.45 + 8.30 + 11.15 PM JUDI DENCH, SOPHIE COOKSON, STEPHEN CAMPBELL MOORE DAILY AT (VIP): 11.15 AM + 4.15 + 9.15 PM SEEF (I) DAILY AT: 9.00 + 11.15 PM 4-DE DE PYAAR DE (15+) (HINDI/COMEDY/ROMAN- TIC/DRAMA) 1-MA (15+) (THRILLER/HORROR) NEW 3-NGK (PG-15) (TAMIL) NEW OCTAVIA SPENCER, MISSI PYLE, DIANA SILVERS AJAY DEVGN, TABU, RAKUL PREET SINGH DAILY AT (VIP II): 12.45 + 3.30 + 6.15 + 9.00 + 11.15 PM DAILY AT: 12.45 + 3.30 + 6.15 + 9.00 + 11.45 PM SURIYA, SAI PALLAVI, RAKUL PREET, JAGAPATHI BABU DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 + 6.00 + 8.30 + 11.00 PM DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 12.45 + 3.00 + 5.15 + 7.30 + 9.45 + FROM THURSDAY 30TH 10.30 PM ONWARDS 5-AVENGERS: ENDGAME (PG-15) (ACTION/ADVEN- 12.00 MN DAILY AT: 8.00 + 11.00 PM TURE) 5-ISHQ (PG-15) (MALAYALAM) SEEF (II) 2-NGK (PG-15) (TAMIL) NEW BRIE LARSON, ROBERT DOWNEY JR., KAREN GILLAN 4-ALADDIN (PG) (ADVENTURE) SHANE NIGAM, ANN SHEETAL SURIYA, SAI PALLAVI, RAKUL PREET, JAGAPATHI BABU DAILY AT: 1.00 + 3.45 + 6.30 + 9.15 + 12.00 MN DAILY AT: 12.00 + 12.30 + 1.00 + 3.30 + 4.00 + 4.30 + 7.00 + 1-RED JOAN (15+) (DRAMA/THRILLER/BIOGRAPHY) WILL SMITH, NAOMI SCOTT, MENA MASSOUD 7.30 + 8.00 + 10.30 + 11.00 + 11.30 PM NEW FROM THURSDAY 30TH 10.30 PM ONWARDS DAILY AT: 8.30 + 11.00 PM DAILY AT (3D): 12.00 + 3.30 + 7.00 + 10.30 PM JUDI DENCH, SOPHIE COOKSON, STEPHEN CAMPBELL DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 12.00 + 2.30 + 3.00 + 5.30 + 6.00 + 6-UYARE (PG-15) (MALAYALAM) MOORE 8.30 + 9.00 + 11.30 + 12.00 MN PARVATHY THIRUVOTH, ASIF ALI, TOVINO THOMAS 6-BRIGHTBURN (15+) (THRILLER/HORROR) DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 12.45 + 3.00 + 5.15 + 7.30 + 9.45 + 3-DEVI 2 (PG-13) (TAMIL) NEW AL HAMRA DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 1.30 + 4.00 + 6.30 + 9.00 + 11.30 PM ELIZABETH BANKS, DAVID DENMAN, JACKSON A. 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DUNN SURIYA, SAI PALLAVI, RAKUL PREET, JAGAPATHI BABU COLIN FARRELL, MICHAEL KEATON, DANNY DEVITO DAILY AT: 8.00 + 11.00 PM FROM THURSDAY 30TH 10.30 PM ONWARDS DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 3.00 + 7.15 + 11.30 PM DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 2.30 + 6.30 + 10.30 PM DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM 4-ALADDIN (PG) (ADVENTURE) 7-LONG SHOT (15+) (COMEDY/ROMANTIC) 12-WONDER PARK (PG) (ANIMATION/ADVENTURE/ WILL SMITH, NAOMI SCOTT, MENA MASSOUD COMEDY) CHARLIZE THERON, SETH ROGEN, JUNE DIANE RAPHAEL 4-ALADDIN (PG) (ADVENTURE) DAILY AT: 8.45 + 9.15 + 11.30 + 12.00 MN BRIANNA DENSKI, JENNIER GARNER, KEN HUDSON DAILY AT: 11.15 AM + 4.15 + 9.15 PM WILL SMITH, NAOMI SCOTT, MENA MASSOUD CAMPBELL DAILY AT (3D): 8.15 + 11.00 PM DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 1.30 + 4.15 + 7.00 + 9.45 + 12.30 MN DAILY AT: 12.00 + 2.00 + 4.00 + 6.00 + 8.00 + 10.00 + 12.00 8-ESCAPE ROOM (PG-15) (THRILLER) DAILY AT (ATMOS): 12.00 + 2.45 + 5.30 + 8.15 + 11.00 PM MN 5-UGLYDOLLS (PG) (ANIMATION/COMEDY/ADVEN- TAYLOR RUSSELL, LOGAN MILLER, DEBORAH ANN WOLL DAILY AT (IMAX 2D): 10.15 AM + 1.00 + 3.45 + 6.30 + 9.15 + TURE) 12.00 MN 13-SHAZAM! (PG-15) (ACTION/COMEDY/ADVENTURE) DAILY AT: 12.30 + 4.30 + 8.30 + 12.30 MN EMMA ROBERTS, KELLY CLARKSON, GABRIEL IGLESIAS DAILY AT (3D): 12.30 + 3.15 + 6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 PM ZACHARY LEVI, MARK STRONG (II), ASHER ANGEL DAILY AT: 7.30 PM

MOVIE REVIEW Ma: Octavia Spencer kills it in creepy exploitation thriller

a is a 2019 American town (never named) filled with on 34 critics, indicating “mixed psychological hor- uneasy stares and kids making or average reviews”. Audiences Mror film directed by dumb choices. polled by CinemaScore gave the Tate Taylor, who co-wrote the It’s an unusually potent at- film an average grade of “B–” on screenplay with Scotty Landes. mosphere for a quickie Blum- an A+ to F scale. It stars Octavia Spencer, Juli- house horror project; you can’t Benjamin Lee of The Guardi- ette Lewis, Diana Silvers, Luke say this one is elevated by the an gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, Evans, McKaley Miller, Missi presence of Octavia Spencer—it’s describing it as “a nasty yet sur- Pyle, Corey Fogelmanis, Marjay more that she allows herself to prisingly empathetic slab of ex- Ross, Gianni Paolo, and Dante descend to the crazy-eyed pleas- ploitation with more than just Brown, and follows a group of ures of being monstrous. She carnage on its mind.” teenagers who befriend a lonely plays Sue Ann, a never-not-sus- Leah Greenblatt of Entertain- middle-aged woman who allows picious local who buys the teens ment Weekly gave the film a them to party in her basement, cases of booze and lets them grade of B, writing, “Even as the only to have strange things begin party in her basement. story descends into full bloody to happen. There are ulterior reasons camp at its crescendo, Spencer The film is produced by Jason for her friendliness. You know holds the more ludicrous plot Blum, through his Blumhouse exactly what they are from the threads together.” Productions company, as well as start (the coy ’80s-set flashbacks Owen Glieberman of Variety Taylor and John Norris. to Sue Ann’s own high-school wrote, “Spencer, a chameleon of Ma was released in the Unit- trauma are extraneous). an actress, does mood swings in ed States on May 31, 2019, by Call it a welcome surprise that Ma that leave us entertainingly Universal Pictures. It received Tate Taylor, the director of Spen- off guard.” mixed reviews from critics, who cer’s brassy turn in The Help as Octavia Spencer as Sue Ann in ‘Ma’ Jude Dry of IndieWire gave praised Spencer’s performance well as the underrated James the film a grade of C, stating that but said the film didn’t take full Brown biopic Get on Up, seems Taylor distracts us with juicier der why Sue Ann ever wanted site’s critical consensus reads, “it takes an amusing premise, advantage of its premise. to be harboring an inner Wes details on the periphery, like to belong to this community in “Octavia Spencer’s performance reduces it to its most basic parts, Trashy movies aren’t good for Craven. Maggie’s mother, a divorced the first place, and that’s Ma’s overpowers many of Ma’s flaws, then weighs it down with silly you, but sometimes they burn When Ma breaks bad, it cocktail waitress (Juliette Lewis, one subtle idea: In her America, but uneven pacing and a labored scare tactics.” with an unexpected honesty that breaks bad hard, with some real exuding abandonment). There’s getting even is a coping strategy. story keep this thriller from fully John DeFore of The Holly- feels more earned than the stuff wince-inducing moments of an undertone of rage to Ma, a On review aggregator web- realizing its unhinged potential.” wood Reporter wrote, “It quick- we’re supposed to prefer. Such bodily harm. The film’s bland stink. site Rotten Tomatoes, the film On Metacritic, which assigns ly spins its shaky premise off into is the case with Ma, a scuzzy young hero, Maggie (Diana Sil- It’s a film in which co-workers holds an approval rating of 61% a normalized rating to reviews, an unconvincing study of emo- and brutal revenge thriller set vers), doesn’t seem to have a snipe at each other and strangers based on 126 reviews, with an the film has a weighted aver- tional need and an even hard- in some hard-luck, blue-collar chance in Sue Ann’s abattoir, but call each other bitch. You won- average rating of 5.75/10. The age score of 53 out of 100, based er-to-believe revenge thriller.”

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