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Angrezi Medium
A film about a free and loving father-daughter relationship becomes a closed circuit. It’s that old cliché about setting someone free if you love them and seeing if they come back.
Mar 2020
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Aligarh
...an even bigger victory for the film might lie in getting vaguely homophobic viewers to empathize with Siras, to understand his distaste for easy labels, to admit that even they sit in the dark with a drink and listen to old Hindi film songs.
Feb 2016
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Akira
Sinha gets to show off her karate chops and martial arts, but the handful of action sequences are less than inventive. Sinha is far more effective in the emotional scenes.
Sep 2016
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AkaashVani
Except for a few moments, and some competent, if synthetic, cinematography by Sudhir K. Chaudhary, a story with immediacy is lost in flinching execution.
Jan 2013
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AK vs AK
The one-line is irresistible—“Anurag Kashyap kidnaps Anil Kapoor’s daughter”—but it’s still sketch material. Blown up to feature-length, it plays like a grungy, scrappy vanity project.
Dec 2020
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Ajji
...is one of the most unsettling experiences you’ll have at the movies this year. Whether it adds up to much more than exploitation-art is another question.
Nov 2017
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Aiyyaa
...is triumphant because its originality matches the director’s assured film-making. Kundalkar is a director with a confident, uninhibited stamp.
Oct 2012
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Feb 2018
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Agent Vinod
A disjointed narrative, uninspired camerawork and set action pieces that fail to wow make this film a jumpy ride.
Mar 2012
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Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Instead of confronting its central question—what do you do if the person you love doesn’t love you back?—the film sidesteps it with a shameless deus ex machina.
Oct 2016
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Jun 2015
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Ab Tak Chhappan 2
This sequel stands as a case for why every part 2 is not always a good idea.
Feb 2015
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A Gentleman
By the truly dismal standards of Indian action comedies, A Gentleman is a middling offender—but what does that even mean?
Aug 2017
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A Flying Jatt
...is derivative, sloppily structured and, especially in its latter stages, tacky beyond belief. That it might also be the best Indian superhero film ever (barring Mr India, if that qualifies) is an indication of how low the bar is set.
Aug 2016
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3 Storeys
The problem with 3 Storeys is the screenwriting; Althea Kaushal’s three stories don’t match moods or stay on the same beat.
Mar 2018
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2.0
A film that pivots around technology and artificial intelligence should have laid as much emphasis on artificial (special effects, computer graphics, robots) as intelligence. But writer-director Shankar’s focus is largely on visually wow-ing the audience.
Nov 2018
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2.0
A film that pivots around technology and artificial intelligence should have laid as much emphasis on artificial (special effects, computer graphics, robots) as intelligence. But writer-director Shankar’s focus is largely on visually wow-ing the audience.
Dec 2018