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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
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Always Kabhi Kabhi
The first half is dull as can be, merely loud, and while the emotionally-laden second half begins to mildly resemble something sweet, it explodes into a flashy climax that ruins everything.
Jun 2011
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Ek Villain
Why, again, is this a remake? Why would these filmmakers steal from a film and yet leave out the good parts, the bits that made those films great? And why do we do it over and over again?
Jun 2014
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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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Jan 2011
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Ladies VS Ricky Bahl
An inexplicably sluggish pace and forgettable songs thrown in every few scenes kill any possibility of a narrative rhythm
Dec 2011
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Padmaavat
The problem lies not in Padmaavat being a costume drama, but in the fact that there is too much costume, too little drama.
Jan 2018
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One By Two
Abhay Deol shoots himself in the foot by acting in (and, inexplicably, producing) this monstrosity that sucks all the goodwill out of an actor we usually like, and his apparent girlfriend Preeti Desai hands in the kind of atrocious performance that makes vintage Katrina look like Juhi Chawla.
Jan 2014
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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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Blank
...this could have been pulpy fun and there is some promise. The hand-to-hand combat sequences are shot grungily, with extreme close-ups, but while Blank wants to be a heavy metal movie, it is basically a kid with a noisy amp.
May 2019
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Student Of The Year 2
The film lacks drama, conflict and narrative tension, with dialogues written for mannequins.
May 2019
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Chance Pe Dance
It's mostly harmless, and certainly harebrained. Leave it to the Shahid-obsessed.
Jan 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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Shaandaar
It’s an old-school Disney-esque film but sadly without the wit and -- as is more critical when it comes to candy manufacture -- the consistency.
Oct 2015
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Ki & Ka
...wants to be important, it wants to be revolutionary, it wants to be a feminist statement of equality. Admirable, sure. But it doesn't know how.
Apr 2016
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Mohenjo Daro
Historical accuracy be darned, Gowariker has served up a severely amateurish production with a weak script and an abundance of cliche.
Aug 2016
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O Teri
...borrows constantly from Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and drowns it all in slapstick so noisy it all comes off as more lame than loving, more blasphemous than beholden.
Mar 2014
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Singham
All I can personally say about this trend of remaking one-note Southern hits as a viewer is that it's an exhausting one.
Jul 2011
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Golmaal 3
I wasn't looking for sensitivity or smarts in Golmaal 3. All I wanted were a few good jokes. The film doesn't oblige.
Nov 2010
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Dec 2016
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Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum
It'd still have been tolerably okay, if only the jokes were funny.Spoiler alert: They're not.
Jul 2012
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Not A Love Story
All Ramu seems to be saying is 'look at me,' and we've seen most of that before. This is a film made in bad taste, and -- with apologies to Mr Capote -- in old blood.
Aug 2011