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John Day
The trouble is that there is no coherent plot to hang all of this on, it's just a series of jumbled scenes with too many characters walking in and out, or limping in and out, or being shot at and huddling about in bloody heaps.
Sep 2013
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Jodi Breakers
...may have started with an idea suited to light-weight rom coms, but despite a few flourishes, it stays firmly bird-brained.
Feb 2012
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Jo Dooba So Paar
The plot is organically grown, the director knows his ground, but the sure-footedness slips when it comes to that crucial thing : story-telling.
Oct 2011
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Jhootha Kahin Ka
This alleged comedy of errors, in which are complicit such veterans as Rishi Kapoor and Rakesh Bedi, bids fair to leap straight into the worst films of the year list. The dialogue is risible. The performances are loud. The film is beyond awful.
Jul 2019
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Jhootha Hi Sahi
...has a lame plot and that the supporting cast has more heft than the lead players.
Oct 2010
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Jazbaa
...convoluted and over-plotted, as a whole. Sanjay Gupta’s ability to create menace and a sinister sense of place is overwhelmed by the film’s need to showcase the lead actor.
Oct 2015
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Jayanta Bhai Ki Luv Story
I believe Oberoi has it in him. Because when he is in earnest, he is an actor that can be watched. But he needs a much better film.
Feb 2013
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Jawaani Jaaneman
A little more consistency with the writing, and a re-upping of the fun-meter would have made Jawaani Jaaneman super. As it is, it is fun while it lasts.
Jan 2020
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Jannat 2
...is, for the most part, a badly-done, badly-acted enterprise, lifted only a notch by a couple of performances.
May 2012
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Jal
The film is well shot but ends up looking like an advert for Kutchhi landscapes and costumes. The plot is overcooked, spilling over with too many threads.
Apr 2014
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Nov 2009
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Jai Mummy Di
The title is apt, and make you smile. Sadly, the spark doesn’t percolate into the film, which comes off banal and dull.
Jan 2020
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Apr 2015
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Jai Ho
...could have been a pure and simple `Dabangg 3’. It’s not. It’s not even a no-holds-barred South remake either, despite its quarts of spurting blood and broken bones. Jai’s ‘aam aadmi’ catches traction only a moment. In the rest, he goes back to snarling and kicking and scowling.
Jan 2014
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Jai Gangaajal
Priyanka Chopra’s too-sophisticated unmade-up-make-up is very distracting, even in her few convincing moments. And the film goes on for far too long, even when we know how all of it will end...
Mar 2016
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Jagga Jasoos
Trouble is, in its zeal to put together novel locations and exotic hot spots, ‘Jagga Jasoos’ forgets to give us a story. The good-looking leads are left to fend for themselves in a sinking plot. What we get, with the exception of a few smiley moments, is a long, dull meander.
Jul 2017
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Jabariya Jodi
As the film goes along, confusion gets confounded. Is this a well-meaning social drama, a rom-com, or an actioner?
Aug 2019
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Jab Tak Hai Jaan
...what the title manages to say pithily takes the fllm nearly three very long hours, and the pay-off isn’t as sweet as it should have been.
Nov 2012
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Jab Harry Met Sejal
What you need in such films with their flimsy one-line plots, is the magic and mystery of love between two people. And full-blown wonder. All in short supply in Jab Harry Met Sejal, which comes off as a mix of Ali’s older films, in its flashes of Jab We Met, Tamasha and Love Aaj Kal.
Aug 2017
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Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai
...practically everything about the film, including this pair which we last saw in `Aladin’, feels like we’ve seen it a hundred times over.
Apr 2010
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Ittefaq
A good murder mystery leads you by the hand but doesn’t advertise its wares, takes care to keep it taut, and delivers a satisfactory payoff. Despite a few niggles, this brand new Ittefaq, which takes broad pointers from the 1969 original of the same name, manages to pull it off.
Nov 2017
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Issaq
...sounds like so many of the other recent UP-as-badlands films, without a singular voice of its own. Finally, it drowns in its own noise.
Jul 2013
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Island City
...works best through these fleeting, arresting visuals, their impact diluting when the director turns her attention towards building the narrative arcs.
Sep 2016
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Isi Life Mein
For a production house that’s been struggling with irrelevance ( it's last one on 'prem vivah' sank), 'Isi Life Mein' is not the way to go.
Dec 2010
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Ishqedarriyaan
Mahaakshay returns in a badly-written romance, which makes you wonder why anyone would want to repeat the same mistakes...
May 2015