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DAVID CHUTE

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications: IFilm, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Times, rec.arts.movies.reviews, Village Voice

Total Reviews: 130

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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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