

Tired of being broke, down-on-her-luck author Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) turns to a form of writing that guarantees her an income – forgery. Meanwhile, the father (Anant Nag) finds himself embroiled in a murder plot in this well-written, heartwarming Kannada-language Hemanth M Rao film. When Shiva’s ( Rakshit Shetty’s) Alzheimer’s-afflicted father goes missing, he teams up with a doctor to find him. Milind Dhaimade’s film, about a group of friends struggling to find the space to play football in Mumbai, weaves in several heavy themes, but with a breeziness and feel-good nature that will leave you smiling by the end.

Only director Yorgos Lanthimos could imbue the stuffiness of 18th Century British royals with a wicked sense of humour, which he does in this (fictional) love triangle between Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), Duchess Sarah (Rachel Weisz) and her cousin (Emma Stone), in which each schemes deliciously against the other. If recently freed prisoner Dilli ( Karthi) hopes to have any chance of meeting his daughter for the first time, he must first ferry several poisoned police officers to the hospital in a lorry, while evading the criminals on their tail, in this Tamil Lokesh Kanagaraj film.

While staying at an army veteran’s guesthouse, they find themselves falling in love with his daughters and widowed daughter-in-law. Yogaraj Bhat’s Kannada-language romantic comedy revolves around three best friends who decide to take a vacation. Set entirely over the course of one night and in one house, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s film follows new bride Grace (Samara Weaving), who realizes her wealthy in-laws have very different (read: sinister) methods of celebration than the ones she’s used to.
