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Jun 2018
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Sep 2015
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Commando 2
The problem with Commando 2 isn’t that it’s a B-movie. The problem is that it isn’t B-movie enough.
Mar 2017
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Mastizaade
What is more depressing? The fact that the first Kya Kool Hain Hum was made? Or that it has spawned a franchise?
Feb 2016
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Junooniyat
An old-fashioned story is one thing, but why not update some of this old-fashioned worldview?
Jul 2016
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Apr 2015
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Joker
Kunder is a daring dreamer of big concepts, but he needs to be a better director to flesh them out with sustained energy. Otherwise a nonsense comedy becomes just… nonsense.
Sep 2012
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Jai Gangaajal
...under the usual Jha trappings, we’re looking at a good, old-fashioned masala movie.
Mar 2016
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Sniff
It feels terrible to carp at a film made for children when there’s so few of these around – it’s the critical equivalent of tossing a mewling kitten off a cliff – but just about nothing goes right in Sniff.
Aug 2017
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Angrezi Medium
...is so wretchedly written, tonally so all over the place that it set my teeth on edge – especially the relentless cutesiness.
Mar 2020
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Boss
Akshay Kumar does what he can to keep things afloat, taking care of the action and the drama and the comedy, but unless you’re Amitabh Bachchan, these one-man circus shows are never a good idea.
Oct 2013
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Dharam Sankat Mein
To succeed with all this within the framework of a broad-strokes, Censor Board-friendly comedy isn’t easy. At times, you may feel a more appropriate title would have been Fuwad Khan Sankat Mein.
Apr 2015
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Tubelight
...Kabir Khan is no Hirani, and he is simply unable to tune into the good-hearted whimsy this story needs – and after the initial portions, Tubelight begins to drag its feet, becoming almost unwatchable.
Jun 2017
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Tamanchey
What we’re left with, then, is an unsatisfying mix of blood and laughs. Even with our low expectations, that’s not enough.
Oct 2014
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Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai
...the director, manages the not-inconsiderable feat of making his movie a gigantic snooze, which wakes up briefly, very briefly, only towards the end, when the mystery is explained. Too little, too late.
Apr 2011
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Dec 2017
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Milenge Milenge
Why bother to remake a destiny-driven romance if you cannot capture the things that made it romantic in the first place?
Jul 2010
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Don 2
The depressingly underwhelming (and numbingly long) Don 2 is less about Farhan Akhtar's commitment to plot and character than hairstyling and haberdashery.
Dec 2011
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Student Of The Year 2
...the clothes, the technicians, the sets, Tiger Shroff — must have cost crores, so why does Arshad Sayed’s script feel like it cost 50 paise? This is a question we keep asking our big-budget productions. SOTY 2 is undernourished and overlong.
May 2019
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Marjaavaan
The film looks like someone sat down and made a bunch of post-its of “must-haves”, and then someone else slapped those post-its onto random pages of the screenplay.
Nov 2019
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Satyagraha
...wonder why Jha insists on following the commercial Hindi-film model when his heart is so clearly not in it.
Sep 2013