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Department
Critic reviews and ratings
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...is neither novel, nor experimental, but a return to the tried and tested formula.
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Losing the plot and three strong stars, Department shoots itself in the foot.
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The camera angles are definitely innovative but instead of being an experimentation towards the narrative, they turn out to be the very narrative that only ends up killing that impact that could have been created.
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...pedestrian Ram Gopal Varma.
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Vague characters can be interesting but the experimentation with the camera is too distracting for anything else to be processed satisfactorily.
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...the movie is a self-consciously parodic version of the cops-and-gangster genre that Varma has mined successfully in the past as a director and producer.
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...can leave you with a massive migraine attack...
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No one in the cast seems to care anyway. Probably, all of them realised this was a script where 'acting' is all about shooting or being shot - depending on which end of the gun you are made to stand.
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...falters in each filmmaker Department and should’ve rather had a tag line Filmmaking of this kinds is a crime.
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It's a lazy, indulgent film that tests your threshold for pain.
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...utter waste.
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If it’s been hard to see any trace of the old RGV in the new RGV, this film has the latter shamelessly tapping into the few good things Mr Varma once made.
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If you accept that Varma is spoofing his own films and the genre of underworld action movies, then Department is hilarious!
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O Ramu, Ramu, wherefore art thou Ramu?
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It's high time the filmmaker struggling with form realised that this nauseatingly gimmicky camerawork he has been afflicted with in his last few films distracts from the story.
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...can easily be called an assault on your senses.
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...this is just a headache-causing flick in the name of innovative filmmaking.
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Ram Gopal Varma leaves the audience behind and launches into increasingly idiosyncratic ways of telling stories.
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With this, it’s clear Ram Gopal Varma has exhausted himself on the mafia-police nexus.
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The film flits between being a bad video game and a sordid semi-porn film. Get a ticket for someone you hate. It’s an assault throughout.
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Yet, Department is important. Because it is the story from a genius in decay.
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This is not a film. It is a joke.
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...is a perfect recipe for headaches.
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