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Rowdy Rathore
It can hardly be called a film, but ah well. Watch it if only to remind yourself of old Khiladi flicks...
Jun 2012
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Romeo Akbar Walter
...follows spy clichés dutifully and drowns us in minutiae, but never feels immediate or exciting.
Apr 2019
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Rockstar
...a simple, unspectacular tale, sometimes even predictable, but director Imtiaz Ali masterfully weaves in details that draw us in.
Nov 2011
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Rocket Singh
It's not a film that grips you from the word go, or one that leaves you rolling in the aisles, but it's an impassioned effort that tosses skepticism out the window.
Dec 2009
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Road, Movie
...it goes nowhere, driving aimlessly around in circles. And yet there are charming characters, and visuals to remember. It's a casual drive, short enough to not mind, long enough to leave you slightly tired.
Mar 2010
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Ready
One doesn't and can't really take offense at a bad film, but a film that doesn't even try Now that's a whole different league of idiocy.
Jun 2011
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Rangoon
...haunts in unlikely fashion and, while the director's most straightforward picture, holds enough of its own marvels to justify multiple viewings.
Feb 2017
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Rang Rasiya
...is not a consistent film, but one that tells a story of a pioneering artist and visionary, a story decidedly worth telling.
Nov 2014
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Raja Natwarlal
...far too unchallenging to its protagonists and too convenient to its writers -- doesn’t aim or offer greatness but certainly throws up a movie more watchable than most of the things crowding your local multiplex.
Aug 2014
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Raazi
The stakes feel dramatic but unreal, and the film feels slow as a result. It certainly doesn't earn its running time of two hours and twenty minutes. By the time the shrill climax comes around, dullness has set in.
May 2018
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Jun 2010
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Raajneeti
...a hyperactive drama given to much yelling and little thought. The screenplay is weak, manipulative and every possible kind of lazy...
Jun 2010
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Jun 2017
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Ra.One
The film seems to think that nothing seems to matter as long as there's enough Khan, and it becomes tragically evident that this is a project born more out of vanity than passion.
Oct 2011
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Queen
...is a good entertainer, sure, but, more critically, it is a showcase for an actress poised to reign. This is one of those monumental moments when you feel the movies shift, and nothing remains the same. I've seen the future, baby, and it's Kangana.
Mar 2014
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Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2
...this juvenile single-minded immaturity hurts the comedy. It hurts the writing. It hurts the characters. It hurts the film.
Oct 2015
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PM Narendra Modi
This is a monumental ode to hubris. The film, PM Narendra Modi, is an embarrassment, and even if every scene were true, the smugness is cringeworthy.
May 2019
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PK
...it is a rollicking mainstream entertainer with ambition to evoke some introspection, one with compelling moments and some genuine surprises.
Dec 2014
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Pink
This is a solid, terse film that makes its points in mainstream fashion with an appropriate lack of subtlety. Pink is a barnstormer -- and it doesn't pull its punches.
Sep 2016
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Pihu
The idea — of anything in a house being a potential threat — could have been made into a watchable short film, but this is feature-length torture, where the viewer is made aware that they must sit through more than ninety minutes of a helpless and endangered child, despite knowing that nothing can really happen to her before the end.
Nov 2018
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Photograph
More than anything else, this film is poetry. Photograph reminds us to believe in minor magic. Here is a film about a city that makes room for everything, from formulaic films to ghosts. Like when posing for a camera, all we need to know is where to look.
Mar 2019
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Phillauri
...Anushka Sharma, who has also produced this film, is one of our most intriguing actresses. She's fine in her part, and often beguilingly pretty, yet the film wastes her. The fundamental problem with Phillauri, I believe, may be one of miscasting.
Mar 2017
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Pataakha
The short story Do Behnein is six pages long, and starts only as Pataakha enters its second half. Bhardwaj takes these hysterical sisters at each other’s throats and turns them into a metaphor for India and Pakistan, locked in an endless cycle of sniping. It is an unsubtle analogy but effective in its crude directness, like a street-play.
Sep 2018
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Paltan
There is a lot to be said about the futility of war, and now Dutta has made his case for the futility of the war movie.
Sep 2018
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Pad Man
...is a genuinely strong movie, telling an unlikely story in likeable fashion and doing it briskly and smartly.
Feb 2018