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Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
..is a cocktail of fun stunts, attractive stars, grand settings, terrible acting, conflicted attitudes and closeted conservatism.
Apr 2017
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Bombay Talkies
...boasts of several talented actors and many worthwhile moments – moments of laughter, courage and poignance. It just doesn’t have the jaadu that the movie madaari promised.
May 2013
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Krrish 3
...with all its blemishes, Krrish 3 still has a lot to offer: a loveable, beautiful-looking superhero, an intriguing female antagonist, hugely entertaining action sequences...
Nov 2013
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Ragini MMS - 2
...could have been better but as things stand, given the space it inhabits and the promises it makes, I enjoyed more about it than I did not.
Mar 2014
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Ajji
Sushama Deshpande’s striking face and screen presence, and young Sharvani Suryavanshi’s natural acting are no doubt worthy of a full-fledged film. Ajji, as it stands now though, is well begun but just half done.
Dec 2017
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Go Goa Gone
...if you can handle the relatively stretched and sinking second half, then it’s got to be said that the first half is definitely worth seeing and even the second half offers occasional scares and laughs.
May 2013
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Race 2
...there’s a bit of mindless fun to be had with Race 2, but for the most part it is such an unimaginative replication of Race 1 that it’s hard not to feel taken for granted as a viewer.
Jan 2013
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B.A. Pass
This is an uncommon film done in by a hesitation to go the whole nine yards. Still, the atmospherics are terrific, and for that it’s worth a watch.
Aug 2013
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Happy Ending
...is sadly not as wacky as it could have been, but it’s genuinely funny and unobjectionable, which makes it easy to forgive the film its many shortcomings.
Nov 2014
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M.S. Dhoni
If Neeraj Pandey needed to be this careful, perhaps he should have manufactured a bottle of antiseptic instead of making a film.
Sep 2016
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David
...is so tedious that it’s hard to focus on its very unusual pluses. This is a film that does not seem to know where it’s going.
Feb 2013
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Sep 2015
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Gold
...has its occasional redeeming moments, but for the most part it just skims the surface of a landscape once examined with such depth by Chak De! India.
Aug 2018
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Aurangzeb
if well begun is half done, then poorly ended equals undone, and that’s the problem with Aurangzeb.
May 2013
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Mubarakan
...despite the considerable dip in pace in the second half, Bazmee has delivered to a great extent with Mubarakan. The film does not strain the viewer’s intellect too much yet does not demand that we – to quote a reviewer cliché – “leave our brains at home”.
Aug 2017
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Chennai Express
...is not unrelentingly laugh-worthy, but it’s still good enough for a relaxed, pleasant evening.
Aug 2013
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Manikarnika
Rani Lakshmibai was a great woman. She deserves better than a poorly written film that chooses to use her for its own self-serving ends.
Feb 2019
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Main Tera Hero
It’s nowhere close to Dhawan’s best, but it’s got enough paisa vasool elements to remind us of how ridiculously brilliant the man was when he peaked with Govinda in the 1990s.
Apr 2014
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Monsoon Shootout
Four years has been an unfairly long wait for mainstream Indian theatre-goers, but our reward is a nicely engaging film with several morally compelling questions at its core.
Dec 2017
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Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
...is not without flaws, but they are overshadowed by the absence of references to farts, poop and animal backsides, homophobia, misogyny and other ugly biases that have repeatedly reared their heads in the kind of comedies Sinha herself has been a part of over the years.
Aug 2018
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Ishkq In Paris
if you’re a die-hard romantic like me, then you might be in a mood to close your eyes to this film’s many flaws. I suspect that's the only way Ishkq in Paris would be your cup of tea.
May 2013
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Coffee Bloom
...I found Coffee Bloom an unexpectedly satisfying film. It is paced in a fashion that might be considered too slow and too languid by some. To me though it felt relaxed, reflective, unusual and offbeat.
Mar 2015
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Ek Villain
Apart from a more consistent pace, Ek Villain also needed more detailing and more depth in its characterisation.
Jun 2014
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Finding Fanny
Clearly the film is aiming at whimsy, a quality so smoothly achieved in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel that was recently in Indian theatres. Finding Fanny doesn’t have enough substance to achieve its goal though.
Sep 2014
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A Flying Jatt
The film’s comedy, occasional inventiveness and aura of innocence are what make it effective in its own way, despite the lack of depth.
Aug 2016
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Made In China
...fails to hit the bull's eye because it sorely needed an evening out of pace and tone, depth of characterisation and detailing in the plotline.
Oct 2019
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I Me Aur Main
...director Kapil Sharma is clearly well intentioned, but struggles to provide his film with depth and meaning.
Mar 2013
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Boss
Too many recent solo-hero action-comedy flicks have suffered from this problem. They’ve even begun to resemble each other. Where does Rowdy Rathore end and Khiladi 786 begin? Where does Dabangg end and Ready begin?
Oct 2013
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Helicopter Eela
...means well, but it ends up as an often fun but almost entirely superficial Mom com, a sort of English Vinglish without depth.
Oct 2018