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Bhoomi
The problem with Bhoomi isn’t the loud, old-fashioned storytelling. It’s that it finds nothing interesting to tell.
Sep 2017
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Bhavesh Joshi Superhero
A sombre not-quite-superhero tale whose flaws don’t make it any less fascinating.
Jun 2018
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
There’s always something happening, but very little perspective on why this man’s life demanded to be made into a movie.
Jul 2013
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Bewakoofiyaan
...is much more complicated and adult, and by reducing it to a rom-com, Asthana pulls her punches.
Mar 2014
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Oct 2013
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Befikre
You need emotional investment. You need to care about these borderline-unlikable characters. It’s not a good sign when you keep wishing someone would make a love story around the heroine’s parents instead.
Dec 2016
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Barfi!
I was trying to think of another film that’s so sad that made me feel so happy watching it. I still haven’t come up with a name.
Sep 2012
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Aug 2017
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Bangistan
Anshuman has ideas – but he doesn’t know what to do with those ideas on screen.
Aug 2015
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Bang Bang!
...the film needed better location photography. It needed better writing. It needed better songs. And it needed a better director, someone with attitude and style.
Oct 2014
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Band Baaja Baaraat
A beautifully textured romcom with flesh-and-blood characters instead of lazy caricatures.
Dec 2010
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Bajirao Mastani
...the performance is still an exhilarating mix of fireworks and thunder and lightning, if only because Ranveer Singh is the first leading man in a Sanjay Leela Bhansali movie who knows what it means to play a Sanjay Leela Bhansali leading man.
Jan 2016
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Bajatey Raho
...galling to put oneself through a Khosla ka Ghosla rip-off with none of the charm and wit.
Aug 2013
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Jul 2015
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Badrinath Ki Dulhania
At the “leave your brains at home” level, Badrinath Ki Dulhaniya is undeniably fun. Only, it doesn’t want you to leave your brains at home. It wants you to think about the things it’s doing. That’s the trouble.
Mar 2017
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Badlapur
...goes beyond genre and simple homage. It isn’t slick. It has a verité feel.
Feb 2015
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Badla
...despite an overall watchable quality, especially towards the end, Badla is a tepid affair.
Mar 2019
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Baby
The director Neeraj Pandey realises that he isn’t making a film about ideas. He’s making an action movie, a thriller. Baby feels long at over two-and-a-half hours, but there’s nothing that feels redundant.
Jan 2015
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Sep 2016
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Mar 2020
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Baadshaho
...promises B-movie entertainment, but the action scenes are unexciting, the writing is awful.
Sep 2017
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Aurangzeb
Aurangzeb, which should have been much better, plays like a mashup of Hindi cinema before it became Bollywood.
May 2013
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Angrezi Medium
...is so wretchedly written, tonally so all over the place that it set my teeth on edge – especially the relentless cutesiness.
Mar 2020
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Andhadhun
Despite questionable second-half detours, Sriram Raghavan’s new film is a most entertaining ride.
Oct 2018
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All Is Well
Oh My God! isn’t just the name of Shukla’s last film. It’s what you keep exclaiming during these couple of hours.
Aug 2015
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Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aaata Hai?
This “conceptual remake” could have used less concept, more thought on why they were remaking the earlier film in the first place.
Apr 2019
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Akira
The low-budget, indie vibe that contributed so much to the gritty atmosphere in the original is sacrificed for big-budget razzle-dazzle – everything looks like a set. The film is very broadly staged, like something out of the 1990s – or a TV serial of today.
Sep 2016