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Jazbaa
It is a mercifully brief movie, just about two hours long, and goes by briskly enough, but that’s about it in terms of the good part.
Oct 2015
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Jannat 2
A lot would have been forgiven -- as it often is with these producers -- if the film had either a meatier plot or a more gripping narrative, but this one's just tiresome as the obvious story drags on.
May 2012
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Jail
...formulaic, below average Bollywood headache, slowed down to lugubrious dullness.
Nov 2009
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Jai Ho
As for Khan, there’s nothing new to see here. But that’s probably the point. For a man who’s pushing 50, he’s looking spry and seems to be having fun playing to type, though the absurd amounts of money his movies rake in obviously help.
Jan 2014
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Jab Tak Hai Jaan
...a middling effort. But then, sometimes, all we need is a Khan-song.
Nov 2012
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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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Ishqiya
Rarely are grace and profanity cited in the same breath. Debutant filmmaker Abhishek Chaubey's Ishqiya, however, is a privileged exception.
Jan 2010
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Ishkq In Paris
...a bad film brought further down by a bunch of Bollywood cliches and a fading Preity Zinta.
May 2013
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Ishaqzaade
There is much craft on display, and some lovely moments, but the immense promise shown by the first half turns out as hollow as a politician's. Soaked in sloppy sexism...
May 2012
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Indu Sarkar
...demonstrates that it doesn't matter who is in charge if the thinking is oppressive. It serves also as potent warning to those in power now and in the future, threatening their legacies. Behave yourselves or else Madhur Bhandarkar will make a film about you.
Jul 2017
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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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Hunterrr
It tries, flounders and -- despite the actors outshining one another -- fails rather miserably.
Mar 2015
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Jun 2014
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Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
This is a lark, a goofy film where you know what's going to happen but where you enjoy watching it unfold.
Jul 2014
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Housefull
There is tacky, there is trashy and then there is a whole new depth of shamelessness...
Apr 2010
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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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Hero
This is a poorly-written film where the kids don’t seem to have any true allegiance to the parental figures or any consistent morality or conflict, even.
Sep 2015
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Helicopter Eela
Sarkar’s film is too melodramatic and long drawn out to hold any impact.
Oct 2018
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Hate Story
Publicised purely on the strength of its 'erotic' content and scandalously adult themes, Hate Story delivers very little actual heat.
Apr 2012
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Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
The sequel has an even more ridiculous plot, a tedious heroine and — this is the crucial bit — not enough gags. It runs out of steam long before the finish line.
Aug 2018
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Haider
...a knockout, a film that makes you smell corpses, that makes you shudder with melancholia, and a film that points accusing fingers. A film that doesn't flinch.
Oct 2014
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Guzaarish
The film tries far too desperately to evoke what Bollywood calls the 'feelgood' factor, but ends up evoking more apathy than empathy. Guzaarish starts off slow and beautiful, but gradually, sadly congeals into a wet mess.
Nov 2010
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Gully Boy
...is the first great Hindi film of 2019 and a rousing celebration of spunk. The writing is enthralling, the texture fantastic, and this world is a revelation.
Feb 2019