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05/18/10 |
Moderate |
 "Not even the incoherent mish-mash of plot (mostly faux Sergio Leone by way of Tarantino and Rodriguez, with periodic car-flipping chase sequences) can entirely dim the appeal of this match-up between a blue-eyed Punjabi [Hrithik Roshan] and a blue-eyed Mexican [Bárbara Mori] of almost equal comeliness." |
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02/10/10 |
Good |
 "In writer-director Rajkumar Hirani's tuneful, enjoyable college comedy, '3 Idiots,' Aamir Khan plays Rancho, an engineering student so brilliant that he barely has to break a sweat to place first in his class." |
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12/10/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...more noteworthy, perhaps, for the stereotyping and bathos it avoids than for any startling insights it achieves... owes much of its interest to the alertness and sincerity of the younger Bachchan and the luminous Vidya Balan as the anguished parents..." |
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11/18/09 |
Weak |
 "The slathered-on visual textures aren't quite enough to distract us from the glib, leftie posturing, the lazy writing (which confuses Tourettic obscenity with low-life authenticity), and the drug-deep existential platitudes..." |
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07/01/09 |
Weak |
 "...a predictable, brow-furrowing drama about the effects of 9/11 (and 9/11 paranoia) on some South Asian immigrants living in New York.... The great Irrfan Khan has the meatiest role, a Muslim-American FBI agent who hates the jihadis..." |
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06/18/09 |
Excellent |
 "The characters seem to take a masochistic pride in being able to endure a landscape this dreary without slitting their wrists... The movie leaves a warm glow." |
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03/05/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Ultimately, the emotional center of this hard-working movie turns out to be the star rather than the barber. It is dedicated to the proposition that god-like celebrities are ordinary folks at heart. Groans all around." |
| 8. |
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02/12/09 |
Weak |
 "...written, produced, directed by and starring B-movie actor-director Damian Chapa... Though it's a near thing, the movie isn't quite bad enough to qualify as a classic tone-deaf vanity production..." |
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02/05/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...an enjoyable but ultimately toothless inside-Bollywood dramady.... Like quite a few finger-wagging movies about moviemaking, 'Luck By Chance' doesn't have the budget to capture the full cheesy splendor of the blockbuster film shoots it disapproves of." |
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01/14/09 |
Fair |
 "...a mélange of old-school masala movie clichés decorated with some flashes of minty-fresh foolishness..." |
