Rotten
| N/A | Wanted (2009) | "
Khan and Deva will do just about anything for effect, and even an over-the-top amoral revenge fantasy needs a shred of internal consistency." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Dil Bole Hadippa! (2009) | "
Dil Bole Hadippa! is a sad commercial place holder of a movie, a product of an industry that has treading water for some time, now, patiently waiting for the next big trend." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| New York (2009) | "
A predictable, brow–furrowing drama (sadly songless except for a couple of Sunday–in–the–park montage sequences) about the effects of 9/11 (and 9/11 paranoia) on some South Asian immigrants living in New York." — Village Voice Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Daytime Drinking (2008) | "
The movie leaves a warm glow." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | That Game of Chess (2009) | "
Visually, the film displays no zest or inventiveness whatsoever, though the actors manage, most of the time, to read their dialog audibly." — L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Billu Barber (2009) | "
It is dedicated to the proposition that god-like celebrities are ordinary folks at heart. Groans all around." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| Polanski (2009) | "
Though it’s a near thing, the movie isn’t quite bad enough to qualify as a classic tone-deaf vanity production." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Luck by Chance (2009) | "
An enjoyable but ultimately toothless inside-Bollywood dramady." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 5, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Chandni Chowk to China (2009) | "
Shapeless, shameless, and slapdash." — Village Voice Posted Jan 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Ghajini (2008) | "
Aamir Khan, a teen idol in the early ‘90s turned dashing romantic leading man, has for several years been Bollywood’s most exportable overachiever." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 5, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) | "
In effect, the oppressed Taani is allowed to open up but the repressed Surinder is not, which hardly seems fair." — L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Waiting in Beijing (2008) | "
The cinematic equivalent of a hopeless self-published novel." — L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 11, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Fix (2008) | "
A shakey-cam odyssey across Los Angeles, from Beverly Hills to Watts, with a carload of drug dealers of convenience, in which almost nothing rings true." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Dostana (2008) | "
A pure star vehicle, gliding along on charm and timing -- exactly the sort of comfort cinema Hollywood now seems incapable of making." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 20, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Fashion (2008) | "
[A] finger-wagging slog through the Mumbai high-fashion scene." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 6, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| The World Unseen (2008) | "
Lisa Ray is a magnificent actress, but she’s still waiting for her first great role." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 6, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Roadside Romeo (2008) | "
You’d think the free-for-all atmosphere of the best Bollywood romps would be a perfect fit in the CG realm." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| Partition (2007) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Nana (2005) | "
Despite the gritty urban setting, there are episodes of Gilmore Girls that have more 'edge.'" — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 20, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Jodhaa Akbar (2008) | "
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 |
Rotten
| N/A | Sunday (2008) | "
We recommend sleeping in." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 31, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Aaja Nachle (2007) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| Om Shanti Om (2007) | "
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 |
Fresh
| Rotten 39%
| Saawariya (2007) | "
Comes this close to sweeping us off our feet." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 14, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | Laaga Chunari Mein Daag - Journey of a Woman (2007) | "
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Chak De India (2007) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| Gandhi, My Father (2007) | "
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007) | "
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 |
Fresh
| N/A | Shoot Out at Lokhandwala (2007) | "
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 |
Rotten
| N/A | Cheeni Kum (2007) | "
The movie [is] interesting to talk about afterward, but not necessarily any more fun to watch." — L.A. Weekly Posted May 31, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007) | "
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Royal Guard (2007) | "
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Black Friday (2007) | "
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 |
Fresh
| N/A | Traffic Signal (2007) | "
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 |
Fresh
| N/A | Salaam-e-Ishq (2007) | "
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Guru (2007) | "
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 |
Rotten
| N/A | Kabul Express (2006) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) | "
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Dhoom 2 (2006) | "
A movie meal as satisfying as this one can make you feel that nothing else matters." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 30, 2006 |
Rotten
| N/A | Umrao Jaan (2006) | "
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 |
Fresh
| N/A | Don (2006) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Jaan-E-Mann (2006) | "
Viewers who are not already Bolly-heads are likely to be appalled." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 26, 2006 |
Fresh
| N/A | A Dirty Carnival (2006) | "
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 |
Rotten
| N/A | Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006) | "
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) | "
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Krrish (2006) | "
Hearty pulp cinema that really sticks to your ribs." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 29, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 22%
| Typhoon (2006) | "
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Fanaa (2006) | "
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Water (2006) | "
... 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 |
Fresh
| N/A | Taxi Number 9211 (2006) | "
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 |
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