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Airlift
Critic reviews and ratings
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...a classic film based on a real life incident that is told extremely well on screen.
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...gritty, edge-of-the-seat and heart-stopping.
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Menon steers clear of the traps in his way while delivering a sharply written, gripping thriller that rarely, if ever, flags.
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...has one of Akshay Kumar's best performances...
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Director Raja Krishna Menon tells this remarkable tale astutely, keeping us on the edge of our seats.
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This was a story waiting to be told, and it has been.
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This is, arguably, Akshay's best performance till date.
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...a heart-stopping thriller.
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After Baby, Akshay Kumar delivers yet another thriller with deadpan calm.
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A dusty desert wrought with equal measure of humanity and inhumanity. A film that shows you both facets without making much ado about either. Ought to be watched because these 'too good to be true' events are true.
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...a good film, solidly plotted, well executed and well-acted.
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Raja Menon turns an important story into a compelling film.
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...an engaging movie that keeps it real, emotional and dramatic.
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...director Raja Krishna Menon takes on this challenge of turning a story known to all into a compelling watch and pens a nail-biting plot that will keep you fearful, hopeful and yet, unsure and uncomfortable.
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...a triumph of the mainstream, a mainstream that gets sidelined in the critics’ circle either with a patronising tone or cynicism.
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...is compelling, thanks largely to a sterling performance from Akshay Kumar -- who is both suitably weary and suitably level-headed for the part -- enough to anchor the proceedings.
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A spirited effort and Akshay Kumar’s performance are the high points of Airlift.
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An impressive, terse thriller.
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It’s Akshay’s most honest portrayal till date, where he lets his eyes and silences do the talking.
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...a fine example of how it’s possible to incorporate Western understatement into a very Indian movie, and, more importantly, a fine model for how our aging heroes can continue playing the action hero.
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This is not an accurate portrayal of the Kuwait evacuation, but worth a watch all the same.
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...is Argo with a split personality, songs and questionable fidelity to facts.
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This amazing story needs a second movie, perhaps titled The Real Airlift, which is not in thrall to a single and singular man but acknowledges the hundreds who enabled lakhs of Indians to return home safe. Airlift soars on its own merits, but it is ultimately a flight of fantasy.
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Watch this movie, because a story of a rescue of this scale needs to be told. Watch this movie because we need more everyday hero tales...
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...would have been a better film without this nationalistic bluster but has a bigger potential at the box office now with the Republic Day just round the corner.
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