ROTTEN TOMATOES: David Chute

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	Partition
	Jodhaa Akbar
	Aaja Nachle
	Saawariya
	Chak De India
	Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
	Shoot Out at Lokhandwala
	The Royal Guard
	Black Friday
	Traffic Signal
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	Nana
	Sunday
	Om Shanti Om
	Laaga Chunari Mein Daag - Journey of a Woman
	Gandhi, My Father
	Cheeni Kum
	Ta Ra Rum Pum
	Kabul Express
	Curse of the Golden Flower
	Umrao Jaan
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

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	"Partition doesn�t add many new ideas to the mix, but the deep colors and complex textures supplied by Indian-born cinematographer-turned-director Vic Sarin seem to embody the intensity of his boyhood memories." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 27, 2008	Partition (2007)	14%
	"*Despite the gritty urban setting, there are episodes of Gilmore Girls* that have more 'edge.'*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Mar 20, 2008	Nana (2005)	60%
	"An imperial epic of 16th-century India, realized on a suitably gargantuan scale by writer-director Ashutosh Gowariker." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 21, 2008	Jodhaa Akbar (2008)	71%
	"We recommend sleeping in." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 31, 2008	Sunday (2008)	n/a
	"*If history has taught us anything, it's that the effectiveness of a proposition such as Aaja Nachle* depends almost entirely on charm. In this case, that invitation is all but irresistible.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Dec 6, 2007	Aaja Nachle (2007)	n/a
	"*The team of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and A-list-choreographer-turned-director Farah Khan have pushed the Main Hoon Na* gentle masala movie parody to repetitive extremes.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Nov 15, 2007	Om Shanti Om (2007)	83%
	"Comes this close to sweeping us off our feet." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 14, 2007	Saawariya (2007)	41%
	"The movie works so hard to transform its shocking subject into acceptable material for middlebrow melodrama that it never deals with it." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 18, 2007	Laaga Chunari Mein Daag - Journey of a Woman (2007)	n/a
	"Weaves its familiar story with some fresh textures and even manages to invest the conflict on the field with a resonance that transcends the tick-tock turnover of the numerals on the scoreboard." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 16, 2007	Chak De India (2007)	80%
	"It�s a beautifully shot and staged period reconstruction, and is at times impressively acted, at least in the secondary roles. What it lacks is fresh insight." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 2, 2007	Gandhi, My Father (2007)	40%
	"Flirtatious repartee between glamorous stars in travel-poster international locations; a gratifyingly simple plot with puzzles and sleight-of-hand surprises; and, at regular intervals, outbursts of gaudy, energetic dancing infectiously exploding." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 21, 2007	Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007)	83%
	"Shootout at Lokhandwala may still be a rush for action fans because it never slows down long enough to become even remotely boring." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 31, 2007	Shoot Out at Lokhandwala (2007)	n/a
	"The movie [is] interesting to talk about afterward, but not necessarily any more fun to watch." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 31, 2007	Cheeni Kum (2007)	n/a
	"The film is so single-mindedly determined to be light and comfortable, to not raise a sweat, that it forgoes even the mildest surprises. The only things that get heavy here are the viewer�s eyelids." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 3, 2007	Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007)	60%
	"This is robust storytelling, with blood and thunder pumping through its veins, and real whiskers on its face." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 15, 2007	The Royal Guard (2007)	100%
	"The underused Indian actor Kay Kay Menon is perfectly cast as a crisply correct detective keeping a tight lid on his seething anger in Black Friday, a rigorously naturalistic docudrama about a complex police investigation." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 15, 2007	Black Friday (2007)	86%
	"*A skillfully woven multicharacter drama, Traffic Signal* is a methodical depiction of a stratified alternative society cobbled together by the group of Bombay street people.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Feb 8, 2007	Traffic Signal (2007)	n/a
	"Writer-director Nikhil Advani cuts with crisp elegance between six passionate love stories in this master-class, South Asian extreme version of a tear-streaked Bollywood music drama." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 1, 2007	Salaam-e-Ishq (2007)	n/a
	"The film is a triumph of casting: In a role that is often about the sheer steamrolling force of his character�s personality, Abishek Bachchan�s attention to detail makes Guru accessible rather than intimidating, admirable but also plausible." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 19, 2007	Guru (2007)	90%
	"Kabul Express is the first foreign production shot in Afghanistan since the war, but [writer-director Kabir] Khan makes surprisingly little of his unique opportunity." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 22, 2006	Kabul Express (2006)	n/a
	"*In the end, Curse* also looks alarmingly like a dry run for the opening and closing ceremonies Zhang has been hired to direct for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Dec 20, 2006	Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)	65%
	"A movie meal as satisfying as this one can make you feel that nothing else matters." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 30, 2006	Dhoom 2 (2006)	80%
	"*At three and a half hours, J.P. Dutta's lugubrious period melodrama Umrao Jaan* defeated me. It feels endless.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Nov 9, 2006	Umrao Jaan (2006)	n/a
	"Working to keep the home audience interested in a story it knows by heart, Akhtar adds so many additional betrayals and secret identities to an already far-fetched plot that the real world becomes a distant memory, and happily so." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 26, 2006	Don (2006)	n/a
	"Viewers who are not already Bolly-heads are likely to be appalled." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 26, 2006	Jaan-E-Mann (2006)	50%
	"Ha Yu, the young director of the sleek Korean gangster drama A Dirty Carnival, walks the genre-movie tightrope like a master: He keeps us guessing but never gets so hot for novelty that he disrespects the ground rules of the form." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 12, 2006	A Dirty Carnival (2006)	n/a
	"Squanders most of the goodwill generated by Part 1, banishing nearly all of its supporting characters to the Shadow Zone and starting all over again from scratch." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 7, 2006	Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006)	n/a
	"Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (Never Say Goodbye) contains set pieces so spine-chillingly effective that people may still be talking about them 20 years from now." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 17, 2006	Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006)	75%
	"Hearty pulp cinema that really sticks to your ribs." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 29, 2006	Krrish (2006)	100%
	"Every gesture feels synthetic, from the back story about North-South separation to massage the emotions of the home audience, to the 24-style globe-hopping nuclear-terrorism premise." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 1, 2006	Typhoon (2006)	22%
	"The sheer exuberant star power of this movie�s early scenes of romance and lip-synching among the national monuments is irresistible." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 1, 2006	Fanaa (2006)	100%
	"... hitches some of the most irresistible conventions of Hindi movie melodrama to an earnest agenda of social protest." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 28, 2006	Water (2006)	91%
	"Crisp, fast editing and some expert sound effects goose this clash of social opposites as it escalates into a slapstick battle of wits." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 2, 2006	Taxi Number 9211 (2006)	n/a
	"Already a cultural phenomenon in India, this reformist melodrama by Rakesh Omprakash Mehra (Aks) uses razor-sharp technique and an eavesdropper�s ear for dialogue to update the patriotic fervor of Bollywood�s golden age." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 2, 2006	Rang De Basanti (2006)	n/a
	"Zinda (Alive) isn't quite as gripping or as flamboyant as it should be." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 19, 2006	Zinda (2005)	n/a
	"Not even a third-act rescue from a burning building can prevent the tension from going up in smoke." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 5, 2006	Shikhar (2005)	n/a
	"*despite the excellence of its large ensemble, Bluffmaster* still feels like a star vehicle, and a solidly convincing one at that.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Dec 22, 2005	Bluff Master (2006)	n/a
	"The normally sharp instincts of Yash Chopra, the executive producer and distributor of this strident sex comedy, seem to have deserted him this time." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 15, 2005	Neal 'n' Nikki (2006)	n/a
	"A watchable, but conventional, romantic comedy about negotiating domestic peace agreements in the shadow of an unexpected pregnancy." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 15, 2005	Salaam Namaste (2005)	80%
	"The movie never finds the right balance between momentum and exposition, and way too much historical information has been crammed into voice-over narration." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 18, 2005	The Rising (2005)	89%
	"An almost exhaustingly inventive action comedy that uses every available trick." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 6, 2005	Kung Fu Hustle (2005)	89%
	"An earnest also-ran." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 31, 2005	Schizo (2005)	78%
	"*The premise of the first Miss Congeniality* is unrepeatable by definition, and Gracie is much less interesting as a now-fashion-savvy agent in Las Vegas.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Mar 24, 2005	Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005)	14%
	"Ghobadi's genius seems supercharged rather than weighed down by his higher calling, and his imagery is so boilingly alive that we come away from it feeling exhilarated rather than depressed." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 17, 2005	Turtles Can Fly (2005)	90%
	"A withering satire." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 10, 2005	Masculin Feminin (1966)	94%
	"Tony Jaa is the real thing." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 10, 2005	Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2005)	85%
	"The supposedly human face of our metal-plated robocop's partner -- the inevitable curvy female in a leather jump suit -- is an inexpressive, glossy doll mask, untouched by human hands." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 12, 2005	Appleseed (2004)	19%
	"A soulless piece of product, an ungainly hybrid of sketchy hand-drawn characters in blocky CGI environments, derivative at just about every level." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 30, 2004	Sky Blue (2005)	55%
	"This man without qualities is a concept rather than a man, an ambitious rich actor's condescending fantasy of a colorless suburban schmo." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 30, 2004	The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)	69%
	"*Feels like a big-budget Dharma & Greg* episode with toilet jokes.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Dec 16, 2004	Meet the Fockers (2004)	39%

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