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Roy
Critic reviews and ratings
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...it has more than its fare share of flaws, especially in the latter half of the film. But despite all of that, it's hard to let go of the riveting first half and the idea that the film so beautifully holds at its center.
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...a film to be watched if you are a fan of thriller movies with some soul-stirring music.
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Debutant director Vikramit Singh thankfully steers away from the obvious and the melodramatic and chooses to present this interesting concept with a soft, subtle and delightfully imaginative filter.
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That the graph remains unhurried, almost meditative in its approach to storytelling, is down to the director's striking sense of imagery and framing (supported by stylish camerawork), his atmospheric and well-planned use of string-heavy background themes, and his extensive treatment of their chatty chemistry.
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Despite these flaws, the film is still enjoyable in sporadic bursts for the immersing story, an unconventional lead cast, and the visual flair.
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Aided by respectable central performances, a catchy soundtrack, eloquent visuals and a very impressive debut as writer and director for Vikramjit Singh, Roy is a great date-night option for the Valentine's Day weekend.
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...has its moments, but the story is like a blotch of painting on abstract art.
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A film lavished with dollops of visual style and aural sophistication, Roy would have been a runaway cinematic delight if only its makers had coupled its impressive surface gloss with a modicum of substance.
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While the film is shot beautifully, its the story that falls flat mainly because it is packed with too much randomness in the name of art and intensity.
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...is ponderous, slow-burning to the point of being slow-moving, and too self-absorbed to notice that it isn’t going anywhere. But it always looks tip-top.
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Its story is an absolute drag, and eventually ends up losing the plot much before the film ends.
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Director Vikramjit Singh’s ambitious first film had the potential but end of the day it turns into a tiresome affair. A tad too indulgent and too contrived.
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Singh’s un-Bollywood storytelling (long pauses, silences and thoughtfulness), colour palette and controlled drama are refreshing, but the pace is sluggish and the plot too thin to carry a two-and-a-half-hour film.
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A romantic rumination trying to be sold as a thriller it is not. Interesting but not enough. Lots of philosophy but towards no tangible direction.
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Elegantly shot but utterly incoherent, this ambitious film is an exercise in obfuscation.
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...the latest entrant in the gigantic pantheon of movies featuring style over substance.
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...it's all really pretentious hoo-haa where nothing is happening.
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When you neglect your writing and focus on the surface gloss instead, beyond a point the result is pretentiousness, tedium and characters who deliver philosophies to each other rather than conversing naturally.
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Roy is what happens when an art-house English film masquerades as a mainstream Hindi movie.
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...here hasn’t been a film this boring, this ridiculous and this pretentious since the time you can remember.
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...limps lethargically for close to 2 hours and 30 minutes, all but collapsing in a predictable twist ending that you've guessed a long time ago.
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...this is fart-house cinema at its farcical best.
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More style than substance, here the songs have more depth than the script.
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...train-wreck.
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...is so tangled in its inflated, erratic ideas of a pseudo mystery around parallel lives and loves that it ceases to make sense even before it takes off. Mostly, though, it's just slow torture.
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...it's appalling that this film has made it to the theatres.
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I haven’t seen something as fuzzy and dreary as ‘Roy’ in a long time : just what is Ranbir Kapoor doing in a movie like this?
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