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Kill Dil
At every point, you keep wanting Kill/Dil to be so much more – but this isn’t a lazy failure. If anything, Ali tries to do too much.
Nov 2014
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Kick
Movies like Kick depress me – and not because of the ineptness on display, the sheer waste of resources, the utter contempt for the audience. What depresses me is that they become hits, and further the conventional wisdom that this is what masala cinema is all about.
Jul 2014
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Apr 2016
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Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey
The problem with Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey isn't its simple-minded straightforwardness. The problem is that not a single character in this story is brought to three-dimensional life - we get a parade of names and faces, and we could be staring into an illustrated history book.
Dec 2010
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Kedarnath
A generally watchable film whose scenery does more heavy-lifting than the screenplay.
Dec 2018
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Aug 2018
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Karthik Calling Karthik
Spooky 5 a.m. calls perk up a wallflower-loser in an eerie urban-nightmare that’s terrific for the most part.
Feb 2010
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Mar 2016
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Kalank
...the overall feeling is that of disappointment. Kalank is certainly not a lazy failure, but it ends up being an odd bird: watchable, but neither generic enough to overlook its flaws nor specific enough to embrace with all your heart.
Apr 2019
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Kahaani
...is beautifully shot and put together, and its deeply atmospheric scenes are driven by a superb score...
Mar 2012
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Kaalakaandi
...made me wonder if Delhi Belly might be another instance of the famed “Aamir Khan touch,” where people who make good-to-great films under his aegis end up bombing outside.
Jan 2018
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Jan 2017
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Junooniyat
An old-fashioned story is one thing, but why not update some of this old-fashioned worldview?
Jul 2016
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Sep 2017
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Judgemental Hai Kya
It’s just that the film is far more convincing as an art installation about a mental condition than as a whodunit, whydunit or did anyone indeed dunit in the first place!
Jul 2019
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Jolly LLB 2
Merely okay as courtroom drama, but a vivid look at Hindu-Muslim dynamics.
Feb 2017
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Joker
Kunder is a daring dreamer of big concepts, but he needs to be a better director to flesh them out with sustained energy. Otherwise a nonsense comedy becomes just… nonsense.
Sep 2012
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Jism - 2
Pooja Bhatt has actually managed something remarkable. She has taken a subject with a love triangle, the threat of terrorism, guns, bloodshed, double crosses, spy operations and an adult-film star and rendered it utterly boring.
Aug 2012
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Jawaani Jaaneman
Saif Ali Khan plays an older version of a Saif Ali Khan role in an underwhelming dramedy.
Feb 2020
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Jannat 2
I went in with low expectations and the film surpassed them at every level, and this isn’t faint praise.
May 2012
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Apr 2014
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Jai Ho
There is so little to root for in the film – despite such an emotional hook, of man helping fellow man – that we look for scraps...
Jan 2014
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Jai Gangaajal
...under the usual Jha trappings, we’re looking at a good, old-fashioned masala movie.
Mar 2016
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Jagga Jasoos
The left half, he says, is logical. The right half is mad, magical. Anurag Basu has made a right-brain movie. I’m not sure it can be defended logically, and I’m not sure I care when the result is so mad, so magical.
Jul 2017
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Jackpot
What he (the director) doesn’t do is put together something that can make us care. And the acting is awful.
Dec 2013
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Jab Tak Hai Jaan
It is perhaps a testament to Yash Chopra that he shepherds us past this material without making it look entirely ludicrous. Jab Tak Hai Jaan is a sturdy instruction manual on how to handle melodrama in the classiest possible fashion.
Nov 2012