Every week, OTT platforms flood us with “new releases,” but novelty is not the same thing as value. Some titles justify the hype, some surprise you, and some exist purely to fill library space. We know that most of you are excited about Stranger Things Season 5 but there are some other good options too. Here’s a no-nonsense take on what deserves your time this week and what really doesn’t.
Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2
Streaming on: Netflix
This is Netflix firing its biggest weapon one last time. The scale is enormous, the stakes are finally real, and the show remembers that character payoffs matter as much as spectacle. It may not reinvent the series, but it delivers the emotional closure fans have earned after years of investment. This is how you end a pop-culture juggernaut.
Our verdict: Watch it
Baahubali: The Epic
Streaming on: Netflix
Seen it before? Probably. Still works? Absolutely. The combined cut reminds you how confidently Rajamouli builds and evokes mass emotion. Even after years of imitators, Baahubali stands tall because it commits fully to its operatic ambition without apology. Big, loud, and still magnificient.
Our verdict: Watch it
Flow
Streaming on: Netflix
This beautiful Oscar winner has no dialogue. No exposition. No hand-holding. Just pure visual storytelling that trusts the audience’s intelligence. Flow is gentle, melancholic, and devastating, proving animation doesn’t need noise to leave a mark. This is the kind of film that lingers long after the screen goes dark.
Our verdict: Watch it
Ullozhukku
Streaming on: Netflix
A film that understands grief does not announce itself loudly. Ullozhukku unfolds with emotional maturity, allowing silence to do the work. Urvashi and Parvathy Thiruvothu are exceptional, and the film never underestimates its audience by explaining what it can show.
Our verdict: Watch it
I’m Still Here
Streaming on: Netflix
Again, an Oscar winner, this is a political cinema that deserves your time and attention. The film’s power lies in its anger and emotional honesty, showing how political violence seeps into ordinary lives. It’s measured, painful, and necessary viewing, especially in a time when memory itself feels fragile.
Our verdict: Watch it
Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat
Streaming on: ZEE5
The film confuses drama with intensity. Obsession is treated as drama without being interrogated, resulting in loud scenes that say very little. It wants to feel provocative but settles for surface-level emotion.
Our verdict: Skip it
Revolver Rita
Streaming on: Netflix
There’s a good film buried somewhere here, but it never quite emerges. Keerthy Suresh commits fully, yet the writing keeps wavering between dark comedy and chaotic violence without mastering either. What should have been sharp feels oddly blunt.
Our verdict: Skip it
Andhra King Taluka
Streaming on: Netflix
Marketed as satire, it plays more like a love letter to stardom. The film is too enamored with its subject to critique it meaningfully, mistaking fan worship for commentary. If you’re looking for something interesting into celebrity culture, this isn’t it.
Our verdict: Skip it
Together
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video
Uncomfortable in all the right ways. Together uses body horror as an extension of emotional decay, turning relationship anxiety into something genuinely disturbing. It’s not an easy watch, but it’s a smart one that understands how genre can deepen emotional truth.
Our verdict: Watch it
Ronkini Bhawan
Streaming on: ZEE5
Moody corridors and ominous silences can only carry a story so far. The series sets up intrigue but relies too heavily on familiar haunted-house imagery, never pushing its psychological tension to a satisfying place.
Our verdict: Skip it
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