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Batla House
There’s promise here in a film about a specific police encounter being scrutinised with extreme cynicism by the rest of the nation, and it builds towards an engaging finale, but Advani takes too long to get there, meandering through wooden actors and limber item-dancers in subplots that really aren’t the point of the story.
Aug 2019
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102 Not Out
...the film relies too heavily on prosthetics, with liver spots being used either for laughs, or instead of character details.
May 2018
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Teen Thay Bhai
Loud and inert at the same time, Teen Thay Bhai is a film to be shunned simply because of how cruelly it treats three actors we should treasure.
Apr 2011
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One Night Stand
...for all its noble feminist intent -- ends up balancing a 'hard-hitting' Sunny Leone soliloquy back to back with a skimpy Sunny Leone item song. Sigh.
May 2016
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Sui Dhaaga
...is a feel-good film about dignity of labour, and the honest toil of a hard-working tailor. Too bad it feels machine-made.
Sep 2018
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India‘s Most Wanted
All this film needed to be was smart. It is thorough — there is much waiting around and scrutiny of agents and potential double-agents — but for a film about intelligence, this isn’t particularly bright.
May 2019
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Welcome Back
...is dumb yet entertaining, utterly silly but made with a kind of absurd, warm energy.
Sep 2015
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Chor Chor Super Chor
...while not living up to the potential of its quirky idea, does offer laughs -- either because of actor, line or the stray scene.
Aug 2013
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Bombay Velvet
...runs out of breath less than halfway through, and huffs and puffs as it tries to breast the finish line.
May 2015
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Mausam
As manipulative masala tearjerkers go, it's a film that tries relatively earnestly and certainly one that occasionally looks striking, but disappoints overall.
Sep 2011
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Chef
...holds no secret sauce of its own, but perhaps we shouldn't be that surprised. There is only that much you can do with a reheated film.
Oct 2017
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Fatso
...the film squanders the most potentially thrilling aspects of the idea and leaves us with something half-baked.
May 2012
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Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara
What is most upsetting is how the vital lines flounder the most: unrelated inanities pop up throughout, but it is when the script actually demands a line with some heft that there is none to be found.
Aug 2013
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Wazir
Wazir's problem, then, lies not in the fact that it does what is expected from a thriller; the problem is that it does everything expected -- which makes it a film that surprises little and adds up to nothing of consequence.
Jan 2016
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Bhavesh Joshi Superhero
Motwane has made a minimal and bare-knuckled vigilante film that means well, but is built out of obvious influences. We know exactly where it's heading, but it still leaves us waiting at the signal too long.
Jun 2018
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Azhar
...a mostly watchable film with a solid lead, but falls far short of being either entertaining, insightful, or worthy of recommendation.
May 2016
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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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Wah Taj
Exaggerated faces, clueless extras and cartoonish sound effects set the stage for something that resembles a sloppy sitcom more than an actual feature film.
Sep 2016
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Ittefaq
Despite the relatively brisk running time and a double murder at its heart, the case runs cold and Abhay Chopra's film emerges unforgivably dull.
Nov 2017
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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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Joker
There isn't a single line in Shirish Kunder's Joker that actually works, leaving us with a film that, while commendably brisk in a 100-minute package, refuses to get going at all.
Aug 2012
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Sarbjit
...is an irresponsibly sloppy film, a film so focused on artless emotional manipulation and trying to make the audience weep, that it trivialises an important true-life story.
May 2016
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Kabir Singh
...I assumed Vanga (Director Sandeep Reddy Vanga) was making a cautionary tale. Instead, Kabir Singh actually applauds its pathetic protagonist, and ends up an obnoxious celebration of toxic masculinity.
Jun 2019
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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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Holiday
...three hours long and incredibly yawnworthy, it's the kind of mess that makes you miss scenery-chewing villains like Prakash Raj and long for item songs.
Jun 2014
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Bang Bang!
This is a stupid, stupid film trying to be slick, a B-grade film made on an A-list budget.
Oct 2014
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Mirzya
Neither this intense-because-we-say-it-is romance running through the film or the soft-focus-myth is actually interesting, and -- shorn of love, or moments -- Mehra's film begins to grate quite early on.
Oct 2016
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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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Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aaata Hai?
...settling for a mediocre thriller which can’t keep up with its characters — or their indignation.
Apr 2019