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Traffic
...doesn’t address its ethics or anything profound. It doesn’t aspire to be anything beyond a bumpy ride to half-hearted glory. And in that it is entirely successful.
May 2016
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Total Siyapaa
...is so insipid, it implores your mind to wander off every few minutes.
Mar 2014
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Total Dhamaal
...would be unwatchable without Madhuri's spunk and bossy swag playing off Anil Kapoor's bellyaching, bugged half's protests. This jodi deserves a better film. And you need no brains to know that.
Feb 2019
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Dec 2010
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Toilet
...Toilet's sanctimonious tone and melodramatic inclinations that takes every possible complexity -- social, cultural or religious -- and shoves it down the viewer's throat in the garb of rushed protests and simplistic resolve.
Aug 2017
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Toh Baat Pakki
Tabu herself can't help being a good actress. But she clearly doesn't have the wherewithal to rescue a script this weak, loaded down with bad lines and a very weakly written character.
Feb 2010
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Titli
In many a scene it is -- and, don’t get me wrong, this is a stirringly solid directorial debut -- but in many a scene it feels too intentionally underdone.
Oct 2015
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Time to Dance
You can miss Time To Dance in the theatres. Yes, the music and the dance sequences do register, and Sooraj holds his own too. But this one is worth a digital dekko.
Mar 2021
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Tigers
fails to understand that the phenomenon of a million babies dying because there is not enough clean drinking water in which to mix a certain packaged baby formula may have its source in a system where deprivation runs so deep that even a small gift works like a tonic.
Nov 2018
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Tiger Zinda Hai
Safe idealism or simply phony, you decide if you intend to endure 161 minutes of this toothless, tiring, plastic Tiger Zzzzzinda Hai.
Dec 2017
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Thugs Of Hindostan
...is 1980s schlock at its most forgettable. Every single gesture, smile and betrayal of this 164-minutes long drag is done-to-death predictable.
Nov 2018
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The Zoya Factor
...the Dulquer factor is the only saving grace of this bland confection. His charisma and cricket are up to the mark.
Sep 2019
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The Tashkent Files
...is not meant for those looking for escapist fare; however, those looking for content-driven, hard-hitting films will enjoy the movie.
Apr 2019
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The Sky Is Pink
The lightness is uplifting without undermining the melancholy of the reality it's recounting through the eyes and spirit of a life cut short. The upshot is a pocketful of smiles, a whole lot of tears and an all-important reminder that the glass is half full.
Oct 2019
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The Shaukeens
Whenever Akshay appears on screen, The Shaukeens transforms into another movie -- one that's substantially more comic, cheeky and winsome -- it's the one I enjoyed the most, it's the one I wished I had come to see.
Nov 2014
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The Power
...just as it happens with any masala film, this one also goes haywire in the second half.
Jan 2021
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The Perfect Girl
...has caused a crater to form on my desk because I keep hitting my head against it as I recount this less than perfect slow poison of a film to you.
Sep 2015
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The Lunchbox
It is a film of multiple pleasures -- small ones and overwhelming ones and exquisitely crafted ones -- layered one on top of the other, with something for everyone, and so, so much for the cinematic glutton.
Sep 2013
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The Japanese Wife
There is enough to dwell on and smile at, but this Wife is an insipid woman, one with bright eyes and a pretty smile and not nearly enough to actually say. She's refreshingly pleasant, but a large part of sitting down to tea with her will involve looking at your watch and pretending to be interested.
Apr 2010
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The Great Indian Butterfly
The script isn't entirely cliche-free and does adhere to conventional thought patterns. Still it's an interesting attempt which works most of the time.
Apr 2010
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The Ghazi Attack
...if you love watching a war movie, that too about a mission that is mired under the weight of being 'classified' and under the sea, the truth about which can surface only exploring the depth of the sea bed, then The Ghazi Attack is a must watch film.
Feb 2017
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The Forest
If only Kumar had established and probed more of the beastly side of man, The Forest could have been something. After all, isn't 'man is the worst animal' at the core of this movie?
May 2012
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The Fakir Of Venice
Director Anand Surapur has a good story to tell, but the treatment feels dated and stretched.
Feb 2019
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The Dirty Picture
...forsakes much potential nuance in its urge to please crowds but is still far more engaging than most Bollywood produce.
Dec 2011
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The Body
The film starts well with a fantastic post-interval twist, but it meanders for the most part. A thriller needs to be edgy or it will lose its grip and that holds true for The Body.
Dec 2019
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The Blueberry Hunt
...as cinema, even if consciously experimental, it's much too inert and latent to engage.
Apr 2016
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The Attacks Of 26/11
I have a headache. My ears are still ringing. The nausea is just about abating.Post-traumatic stress disorder after seeing a movie called The Attacks of 26/11.
Mar 2013
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The Accidental Prime Minister
While it may not be an out-and-out hit job on the Gandhi family, the movie is all about one aspect of Baru's book: How Dr Singh struggled with the family and the party all through his prime ministership.
Jan 2019
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That Girl in Yellow Boots
...is another fine specimen of Anurag Kashyap's style of filmmaking.
Sep 2011