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Gabbar Is Back
From the clumsy plotting and a manipulative back-story featuring a visibly disinterested Kareena Kapoor, to the been-there-seen-that action scenes and the uninspired score, there's little to recommend in this movie.
May 2015
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Court
Tamhane's film excels in revealing these terrific vignettes of life, and in the process it ends up moving you.
Apr 2015
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Margarita With A Straw
Powered by a staggering performance from Kalki Koechlin as a 19-year-old with cerebral palsy, Margarita with a Straw is that rare Indian film that mostly eschews melodrama to give us an honest, sensitive portrait of disability, and the sexual awakening of an Indian teenager.
Apr 2015
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Mr. X
...a singularly humorless film that's sorely lacking in thrills, a coherent plot, and even basic common sense.
Apr 2015
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Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
This is a sprawling, ambitious effort with remarkable attention to detail; a film that deserves to be watched, especially for its masterful filmmaking.
Apr 2015
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NH10
What 'NH10' gets bang on is the milieu: the atmospherics, the language, and the tension that creeps up on you that you can't shake off. The performances too complement the storytelling.
Mar 2015
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Mar 2015
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Dum Laga Ke Haisha
...sucks you into its world with well-etched characters, beautiful cinematography, perfectly detailed production design, and a host of fine actors...
Feb 2015
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Ab Tak Chhappan 2
...is an entirely pointless sequel, a film that has frankly no business to exist.
Feb 2015
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Badlapur
...the film keeps you on your toes, curious to see where its twists and turns will lead.
Feb 2015
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Roy
...limps lethargically for close to 2 hours and 30 minutes, all but collapsing in a predictable twist ending that you've guessed a long time ago.
Feb 2015
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Feb 2015
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Hawaizaada
...is jingoistic, melodramatic, naïve, and often illogical. It might have worked as a quirky flight of fancy, but Puri and his characters take things way too seriously, robbing the film of that very sense of awe and wonder that it so badly needed.
Jan 2015
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Baby
Enjoy it for the brisk action thriller that it is, and try not to think about how much better it could've been.
Jan 2015
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Jan 2015
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Alone
...director Bhushan Patel relies on all the usual tropes- from creaking doors and barking dogs to rearranged dolls and creepy reflections - delivering no more than two decent scares in this criminally uninspired film.
Jan 2015
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Jan 2015
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PK
Packed with sharp dialogue and genuinely funny moments that offset the lack of subtlety, it is easily one of the year's better films.
Dec 2014
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Sulemani Keeda
Slickly shot, capturing a real, lived-in feel of the city, this is a charming little indie that manages to say something important, while never forgetting to make you laugh.
Dec 2014
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Dec 2014
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Bhopal: A Prayer For Rain
It's commendable that the film relives the terrible tragedy of the gas leak, but sadly, it has few moments that are extraordinary or even genuinely moving.
Dec 2014
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Ungli
...the film is so steeped in naiveté and trades in such simplistic solutions, it's as if you're listening to a Class V moral science lesson.
Nov 2014
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Happy Ending
This is a film that wants to be many things all at once - a rom-com between a fading star and the next big thing, also a clever satire on Bollywood.
Nov 2014
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Kill Dil
There's not a lot of praise one can heap on 'Kill Dil' except to say that it's not an unwatchable film.
Nov 2014
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The Shaukeens
There are the odd moments of inspired humor - all crude - between the three senior actors, but for the most part they're wasted.
Nov 2014
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Super Nani
...tacky, unintentionally hilarious film that seems to have shown up roughly 30 years after its expiration date.
Oct 2014
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Happy New Year
If its indulgences were trimmed, this might have been a more enjoyable film.
Oct 2014