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Nakkash
Imam doesn’t have enough layers to weave around a threadbare plot, and the double life that Alla Rakha leads, which is the most interesting aspect of the story, gets drowned by the melodrama.
May 2019
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Nail Polish
The biggest twist in Nail Polish actually emanates from the restrained storytelling and overall lack of hysteria. Bhargava Krishna lulls us into thinking that we are watching one kind of movie while actually delivering something else – a switcheroo that goes beyond anything seen in the movie.
Jan 2021
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My Birthday Song
...has just about enough meat for a short fictional film, but even that would have had to have better writing and less amateurish performances to leave traces.
Jan 2018
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Munna Michael
The undemanding and unpretentious script races from start to finish, pausing to give Shroff numerous opportunities to display his outstanding dancing and fighting skills.
Jul 2017
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Mumbai Saga
Packed with Sanjay Gupta’s trademark flourishes – aphoristic dialogue, massive close-ups, shots of men walking chest out and in slow motion towards the camera, scenes lensed through a jaundice-yellow filter – Mumbai Saga works hard to live up to its title.
Mar 2021
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Aug 2018
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Mukti Bhawan
The astute casting and spare writing give the actors enough space to disappear into their roles.
Apr 2017
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Mukkabaaz
In trying to create a socially aware entertainer through Mukkabaaz, the director throws too many punches.
Jan 2018
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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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MSG The Warrior – Lion Heart
What can be said about a film starring a godman who cannot act or direct?
Oct 2016
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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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Monsoon Shootout
...the movie works perfectly as a neo-noir thriller set in a city where nothing goes according to plan. One moment has several scenarios in Monsoon Shootout, but the outcome – smart writing and direction – remains the same throughout.
Dec 2017
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Mom
...comes close to the spirit of the South Korean films by which it has been influenced, even though it is not always able to replicate the fleetness and clarity with which such movies tackle fundamentally sordid material.
Jul 2017
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Mohenjo Daro
...is far from perfect, but it’s also far more than the sum of its memes.
Aug 2016
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Mohalla Assi
What is supposed to be a satire about the exploitation of religious sentiment becomes a plodding dirge about a disappearing way of life.
Nov 2018
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Nov 2016
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Mission Mangal
In between the gimmicky jugaad philosophising and meaningless sub-plots, Mission Mangal manages to devote some time to space technology.
Aug 2019
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Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho
The satire is seems confidently put across at first but then becomes illogical and unwieldy. Kapri is aiming for a tragicomedy about rural India, but some of his visuals are straight out of a horror movie.
Jun 2015
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Mirzya
Despite the limp leads, the conceit might have passed muster with a linear story set entirely in the present. Mirzya is doomed by its inability to free itself from the weight of the original legend.
Oct 2016
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Meri Pyaari Bindu
...is the kind of romcom that feeds leading questions to potential detractors. Such as, can anything new be said about a love story? Why is Bindu the way she is? And when will this end?
May 2017
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Mere Pyare Prime Minister
...loses direction as it navigates its way through its good intentions and delays an outcome that is predicted from the first frame of the button-cute kids running around the slum.
Mar 2019
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Meeruthiya Gangsters
Quadri’s writing isn’t half as sharply funny or piercingly deadpan as it thinks it is, but that’s par for the course in a movie that celebrates the virtues of taking the easy way out.
Sep 2015
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Mastizaade
From peeling a banana to opening a bank account, from light sockets to soda bottles, Mastizaade pulls out all the stops and lets the ribald humour gush for 108 minutes.
Jan 2016
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Masaan
...has memorable performances and a sensitively observed account of decay and redemption.
Jul 2015
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Marjaavaan
Writer-director Milap Zaveri pulls in every 1980s Bollywood movie trope to present a film designed to elicit whistles from the frontbenchers.
Nov 2019
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Margarita With A Straw
Laila is a compelling heroine and is winningly performed by Koechlin with solid backing from Gupta and Revathy.
Apr 2015
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Mardaani 2
While the briskness lends some urgency to what turns out to be routine serial killer fare, it barely allows for character sketching.
Dec 2019
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Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
...there is nothing unfeeling about Vasan Bala’s retro tribute to the small, silly and lasting ways in which the movies leave an imprint on the soul.
Mar 2019