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Kaamyaab
...is a well-deserved tribute to those countless performers relegated to the fringes of every movie poster.
Mar 2020
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Kaalakaandi
Delhi Belly writer Akshat Verma is brave to embark on this celluloid experiment which has a few well-imagined sequences. If only he would have invested more in storytelling and character development, this could have been a memorable watch.
Jan 2018
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Junglee
It’s obvious that his (Chuck Russell) intentions here were to furnish the man-animal conflict and apprise one of the ramifications. But much seems to be lost in translation.
Mar 2019
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Julie 2
Modestly-budgeted sleazy fests of the kind rarely invest in story and plot and get right down to delivering the goods. Julie 2 shatters this notion and packs in so much plot, it will make your brains rot.
Nov 2017
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Jugni
If you need a reason to watch this film, it would be for the music and to take in rural Punjab like you've never seen in films before.
Jan 2016
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Judwaa 2
David Dhawan comedies scored for their nonsensical dialogue which would invariably rhyme without reason. But the lines here are alternately comic and cringe-worthy. That the veteran filmmaker hails from a period where little attention was paid to the final product, is also evident from the dated style in which this has been shot.
Sep 2017
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Judgemental Hai Kya
It almost seems like writer Kanika Dhillon (Manmarziyaan, Kedarnath) invested more in layering her leads with assorted idiosyncrasies than in directing this story to a sharp fold. To construct outrageous sequences is brave, cinematic even. But to do so excessively just to hammer down a message that is apparent from the very first frame, is just tiring.
Jul 2019
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Jolly LLB 2
Director Subhash Kapoor does well in keeping the audience glued to the screen and keeps the melodrama in check.
Feb 2017
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Jhootha Kahin Ka
The film’s grammatically-challenged tagline — “Liars need to have good memories” — is hopefully, inversely proportional to what the audience retains from this one — for the sake of their sanity.
Jul 2019
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Nov 2019
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Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai
Even if you have an appetite for saas bahu sagas, the grade of chest beating this one endorses would be inappropriate if not fatal for your brain cells.
Mar 2017
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Jazbaa
The film saves a major twist for the end, but that is, if you can survive it till then.
Oct 2015
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Jawaani Jaaneman
What really works about this film is that it ditches all predictable tropes.
Jan 2020
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Jai Mummy Di
In recent years, there’s been an acute shortage of sharply-written and conceived comedies. But this one literally tests the audience’s ability to lap up just about anything that hopes to pass for one.
Jan 2020
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Jagga Jasoos
Catering to every childhood fantasy, Jagga Jasoos keeps you hopeful and rooting for its spectacled snoop, especially in situations where chances of the eponymous jasoos' survival seem bleak.
Jul 2017
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Jack And Dil
...confirms that we are in the midst of one of the greatest creative recessions in Hindi cinema.
Nov 2018
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Jabariya Jodi
That this film sways violently between a light-hearted comedy and one that depicts a serious and very real concern, left the makers on the cusp of a disaster.
Aug 2019
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Aug 2017
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Jaanisaar
One can only imagine the atrocities Indians braved during the British occupation. But occupying a seat to watch this film would be counted as self-inflicted torture, as you now know what you're signing up for.
Aug 2015
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Ittefaq
If one were to list the things that counter this film's ability to deliver as a tight thriller, it would be a long one. While it's unfair to compare, if this remake were to be viewed as a standalone watch, it would still barely hold up.
Nov 2017
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Island City
Writer-director Ruchika Oberoi's Fedora prize at last year's Venice Film Festival for Island City is well-deserved. Her approach to storytelling could be variously inspired by many, but she delivers on the style and format to make this a compelling watch.
Sep 2016
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Ishq Forever
If you're keen on exploring parts of South Africa, off the B'wood map, this one's for you. But that's just one reason.
Feb 2016
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Irada
...the film has a noble irada. But the laboured lecture that it ends up becoming ensures the message is spelt out repeatedly until it becomes a tiresome affair.
Feb 2017
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Indu Sarkar
Apart from his (Bhandarkar) myopic and shallow take on the blotch in Indian history when the world's largest democracy resembled a dictatorship, his propaganda treatment to the material is objectionable
Jul 2017
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India‘s Most Wanted
Given the compelling material to work with at hand, this could’ve rendered a cracking, edge-of-the-seat watch. But predictable turns and lack of cinematic liberties fail to infuse the film with much-required tension.
May 2019
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III Smoking Barrels
...the film fails to rise above clichés and the maker seems more obsessed with technique and treatment than the cumulative effect it would have on the viewer.
Sep 2018
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I Love NY
Staring into the popcorn machine during the interval is surely more entertaining than what's on the screen.
Jul 2015
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Housefull 4
The spurt in comedies crowding the multiplexes could be a result of the economic depression, but the writing here points at a more graver concern — the creative recession gripping the Hindi film industry.
Oct 2019
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Housefull 4
The spurt in comedies crowding the multiplexes could be pinned on the economic slump, but the writing here points at a more graver concern — the creative recession gripping the Hindi film industry.
Oct 2019