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Malang
There is both a love story and some good songs in his new thriller Malang. There are also, to be fair, some interesting ideas floating around. But those ideas never come together coherently; they’re lost in a film that is more interested in surface-level stuff.
Feb 2020
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Bharat
...is exhausting and pointless. It exists only to add to the legend of Salman Khan as the selfless provider, the man who has a heart as big as his biceps. In Bharat, Salman Khan plays Bhai.
Jun 2019
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Kabir Singh
...is an unmistakably misogynistic film, but the sad part is that it’s exactly these troubling portions that the filmmakers peddle as intense love. Even more sad is that there will be many who’ll buy into it.
Jun 2019
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Panipat
...ultimately is overlong and unwieldly. It may have its heart in the right place but its other organs are all over the place.
Dec 2019
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Dabangg 3
The film feels like a string of unimaginative, repetitive action scenes strung together, pausing every few minutes for an underwhelming song.
Dec 2019
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Saaho
The impressively staged but ultimately exhausting action sequences take up the bulk of screen time, but they can’t salvage this soulless film that has all the depth and emotional wallop of a video game.
Aug 2019
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Ujda Chaman
I was bored to death as Ujda Chaman unfolded slowly, verrrry slowly over two long hours.
Nov 2019
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Love Aaj Kal
...is pretty awful and dreadfully boring. It’s also overlong and hammy. The pursuit of romantic fulfilment has seldom felt so banal.
Feb 2020
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Radhe
...is a collage of high-pitched songs and slow-motion shots that made us cringe even five years back. You need to have a high appetite for Khan’s antics to enjoy this one.
May 2021
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The Tashkent Files
By eschewing the tenets of effective filmmaking, The Tashkent Files fails to get both, the fact and fiction right.
Apr 2019
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Coolie No.1
...it seems like a never ending saga of painful comedy and mistimed tragedy.
Dec 2020
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Marjaavaan
I came away from Marjaavaan bored and exhausted. It’s literally a film with no perceivable merit, and one that begs two key questions: How did this film get made? And why are we being taken for a ride?
Nov 2019