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Apr 2017
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Mar 2018
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Na Ghar Ke Na Ghaat Ke
...this genial television-level skit is too slight to amount to anything.
Mar 2010
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Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji
Romantic material more suited to delicate drama is twisted into a sex-jokey comedy. The results aren't pretty.
Jan 2011
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Gurgaon
...is like… a dazzling edifice in Gurgaon. It’s imposing. It’s also remote. The director drains all life from his scenes till they come to resemble modern-art tableaux.
Aug 2017
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Vishwaroop II
A not-exactly-needed sequel, but a solid delivery mechanism for Kamal-isms.
Aug 2018
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Dishkiyaoon
This is one of those Goodfellas-type stories where a kid announces that he wants to be a gangster. But there’s no edge, no danger.
Apr 2014
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Phantom
If you could taste films, this one would be positively brackish from all the pinches of salt.
Aug 2015
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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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Chance Pe Dance
...not interesting enough to earn outright approval, yet not incompetent enough to warrant outpourings of spite...
Jan 2010
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Nov 2010
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Vicky Donor
...is one of those films that looks as if it’s going to shatter a hundred different on-screen taboos, but it’s actually as old-fashioned as they come.
Apr 2012
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Citylights
What do you do when you have a lofty metaphor and little to pin it on? That’s the problem Mehta faces in CityLights, which has very little that’s new.
Jun 2014
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Coffee Bloom
After a gentle two-thirds or so, the plot picks up and the film becomes hurried and less satisfying.
Mar 2015
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Meri Pyaari Bindu
I’m just saying that keeping things light is one thing, and merely scratching the surface is something else entirely.
May 2017
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Ghanchakkar
Raj Kumar Gupta is a tasteful filmmaker with an eye for colourful detail and the archly droll moment. But he cannot rein in the various dimensions of the story, and the film feels like it’s stuck in a loop.
Jun 2013
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Gunday
The experience is immersive, but solely at a surface level – we’re not pulled in. Zafar is so busy making a movie that looks like a 1970s movie that he forgets to make a movie that feels like a 1970s movie.
Feb 2014
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A Flying Jatt
...is the world’s first environmental-PSA-disguised-as-a-superhero-film...
Aug 2016
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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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Ek Tha Tiger
The film seems to be made for the young-at-heart – there’s no heat in the romance, no sex, and there’s no bloodlust in the action.
Aug 2012
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ABCD - Any Body Can Dance - 2
How you respond to ABCD 2 will probably depend on how much you follow dance-reality shows on television, how much you like hip hop moves, and, most important, if you’re still at an age where you squeal when people you like show up on screen.
Jun 2015
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Feb 2016
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A Gentleman
Good directors are allowed to make bad movies, but with Happy Ending and, now, A Gentleman, Raj and DK have ventured into a peculiar place: they’re making bland movies. There’s no personality, only empty professionalism.
Aug 2017
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One Night Stand
How much better One Night Stand would have been with better actors, a more committed filmmaker than Jasmine Moses D’souza!
May 2016
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Manikarnika
...is all ingredients. There’s no cook. Technically, of course, there are two: Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi and Kangana Ranaut. But there’s very little in the film that looks “directed”. It’s just a dull series of events...
Feb 2019
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X: Past is Present
It’s interesting, certainly. But look past the style, and there’s little substance.
Nov 2015
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Shaadi Ke Side Effects
...the film feels toothless, pointless, pretending to tackle real issues while really searching for the next easy punch line.
Mar 2014
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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