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Baa Baaa Black Sheep
It is a measure of the movie’s staggering incompetence from start to finish that even veterans such as Anupam Kher, Annu Kapoor and Kay Kay Menon do not manage to leave a trace.
Mar 2018
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Family Of Thakurganj
The plot kicks in very late, and a bit too late to rescue the movie from utter predictability and sameness.
Jul 2019
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Jai Ho! Democracy
A gag that’s worth a few minutes of air-time in a sitcom has been stretched beyond repair in Ranjit Kapoor’s movie.
Apr 2015
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Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2
The director expends so much energy in running women down that he forgets just how unintelligent and uninspiring his heroes are.
Oct 2015
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Saat Uchhakkey
...has little going for it, but the movie might be worth its 139-minute running time for those who know only 19 ways to insult their mothers and sisters and have merely four phrases to describe the manner in which the human posterior can be punished.
Oct 2016
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Sanam Re
Despite numerous plot twists, the two-hour duration feels as stretched as Samrat’s movie star ambitions. Every now and then, a song that might be better viewed on YouTube shows up to relieve the tedium.
Feb 2016
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Great Grand Masti
Despite the promise held out by the title, this kind of fun is neither great nor grand.
Jul 2016
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Gabbar Is Back
...is designed as a star vehicle for Kumar’s limited acting skills but considerable fighting prowess.
May 2015
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Housefull 3
The filmmakers have aimed to deliver a puerile movie, and, in fact, will be offended by any discussion about Housefull 3 that does not involve its box office prospects.
Jun 2016
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Oct 2016
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Sniff
Sluggishly paced and sketchily written, the movie barely has enough going on to merit 90 minutes of running time.
Aug 2017
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PM Narendra Modi
Any insights the movie offers into Modi’s rise are inadvertent. The monomaniacal focus on one man above all else will surely be of interest to those who study how cinema can be used for propaganda.
May 2019
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Love Games
Vikram Bhatt’s thriller on swingers exploits ideas like drug abuse and threesomes.
Apr 2016
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Wedding Anniversary
...is a throwback to the worst of 1970s films, the ones in which characters delivered themselves of soliloquies and metaphysical treatises that were meant to impress audiences but ultimately bored them to tears.
Feb 2017
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The Power
...is a slog, staggering from one grisly death to another and pausing only to marvel at Vidyut Jammwal’s eye-popping stunts in slow motion.
Jan 2021
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M Cream
If M Cream is what passes for underground cinema in India, perhaps it’s best that it stays underground.
Jul 2016
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Kuch Kuch Locha Hai
The writing is risible, the acting sub-par and the whole premise too ineptly handled to be offensive.
May 2015
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Mubarakan
...the cast assemble and disperse when required, pull faces on demand, and try to keep up with the twists that Mubarakan’s writers conjure up at every bend because somebody on the production thought that it was a good idea to have a 156- minute movie about mixed identities.
Jul 2017
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Namaste England
There is barely a moment of relief from the tedium of watching the leads go through the motions and tuning into the poorly written dialogue and endlessly uninvolving moments.
Oct 2018
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Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3
The Indian sex comedy is usually about desperate characters whose minds are consumed by lust to the extent that they cannot set eyes on conical or spherical shapes without losing their sanity.
Jan 2016
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Teraa Surroor
Whatever the view on Reshammiya and his unrelenting attempts to be regarded as an actor, there is no doubt that he is the biggest sport in Bollywood. Perhaps no other actor tries so hard to live up to the criticism, and succeeds every time.
Mar 2016
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Guest Iin London
When a movie uses flatulence for humour, it is clear that the bar is set very low.
Jul 2017
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MSG
...this excruciating and enervating experience has the potential to inaugurate a new sub-category in the Indian mythological movie genre – the godman hagio-pic.
Feb 2015
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Aug 2015
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Hate Story IV
The scenes between Tasha and the expressionless hunks lusting for her are about as erotic as watching a light bulb being changed.
Mar 2018
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LoveYatri
...the movie exists only to give Aayush Sharma his dream debut. Salman Khan devotees might be persuaded to accept the latest boon from their screen god, but for the unfaithful – and the unforgiving – Loveyatri is a trudge from start to finish.
Oct 2018
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Kuldip Patwal
Kohli’s amateurish handling of the subject and inability to ensure a smoothly paced narrative ensure that the movie is a trudge from start to finish.
Feb 2018
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The Blueberry Hunt
There simply isn’t enough in here to justify the 110-minute running time.
Apr 2016
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MSG The Warrior – Lion Heart
What can be said about a film starring a godman who cannot act or direct?
Oct 2016