Youth≈2.5/5
2026 · Tamil · Lucy Mangan
This brutal, hilarious new show about life as a fiftysomething is full of all the heart and humour of human life. At points it’s mesmerisingly perfect
The Guardian reviews
22 reviews of Indian films, average rating 3.1/5.
22reviews
3.1/5average rating
5highest: All We Imagine as Light
2lowest: Rapture
4Under 2.25
32.25 to 2.9
83 to 3.9
54 and up
Tamil 2.5/5 (1)English 2/5 (1)Malayalam 5/5 (1)Hindi 3.03/5 (16)Telugu 4/5 (1)
2025 · English · Radheyan Simonpillai
The way those lines resonate today, as the war on Gaza rages on, will probably go over the heads of the target audience. But it’s a message worth repeating, even when packaged in muddled live-action form.
2024 · Malayalam · Peter Bradshaw
There is a freshness and emotional clarity in Payal Kapadia's Cannes competition selection, an enriching humanity and gentleness which coexist with fervent, languorous eroticism and finally something epiphanic in the later scenes…
Rapture≈2/5
2024 · Hindi · Lucy Mangan
It is clearly aiming for a lot thematically, too. How do we account for the destabilising forces of grief and guilt? How do guilt and grief manifest at a collective rather than individual level?
Sam Bahadur≈3/5
2023 · Hindi · Catherine Bray
Where this approach lands the film in trouble is in the overall shape of the drama – the incidents and set-pieces are neatly done, but the structure is somewhat episodic.
Jawan≈3/5
2023 · Hindi · Mike McCahill
With flair, Khan plays a godly badass, dandyish army vet and a sweetheart with a prospective stepdaughter in an undisciplined showcase of his talents
Pathaan≈3.5/5
2023 · Hindi · Cath Clarke
The Bollywood megastar plays an unfeasibly ripped agent brought out of retirement to foil the fiendish terror plots of Outfit X
Brahmāstra Part One: ShivaNo rating
2022 · Hindi · Mike McCahill
Bollywood’s answer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a star-studded special effects extravaganza with Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt as convincing romantic leads
2022 · Hindi · Mike McCahill
Director Advait Chandan is too literal in his adaptation of the 90s classic but finds a warmth and political honesty the original lacks
Gangubai Kathiawadi≈3.5/5
2022 · Hindi · Wendy Ide
The hard-hitting story of a sex worker who rises through the ranks of 60s gangland Mumbai is powered by a magnetic performance from Alia Bhatt
83≈4/5
2021 · Hindi · Phil Hoad
India’s stunning 1983 World Cup triumph is retold in endearing style by a sports film with a sharp anticolonialist drive
Gully Boy≈3/5
2019 · Hindi · Peter Bradshaw
In the end, Gully Boy runs on very traditional lines, and maybe comes too close to cliche, but is always engagingly dead set on entertainment.
2018 · Hindi · Mike McCahill
Bollywood’s biggest budget to date and a megastar cast ensure this irreverent romp through historical inaccuracy doesn’t lose anything in translation
Sanju≈2.5/5
2018 · Hindi · Mike McCahill
Dutt’s chequered career should make a fine learning-curve biopic, but this three-hour hagiography simply blames everyone else for his troubles
PadmaavatNo rating
2018 · Hindi · Mike McCahill
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s extravagant medieval epic, which has been the subject of controversy in its home country, makes for a gloriously stirring spectacle
2017 · Hindi · Mike McCahill
A young woman becomes a YouTube sensation dressed in a burqa in this surprising and moving Bollywood drama starring Khan and Zaira Wasim
2017 · Telugu · Mike McCahill
The second part of India’s most expensive film ever is a jaw-dropping blockbuster that combines nimble action with genuine heart
Kaabil≈2.5/5
2017 · Hindi · Mike McCahill
Sanjay Gupta’s tale of a blind dubbing artist avenging the ghost of his wife is the sort of nonsense the Indian film industry stopped churning out 20 years ago
2016 · Hindi · Mike McCahill
Despite controversy over the casting, Karan Johar’s romance, pairing drippy Ranbir Kapoor with spiky Anushka Sharma, has a failure of nerve about Hindu-Muslim relations
Fan4/5
2016 · Hindi · Mark Kermode
Shah Rukh Khan outdoes himself twice in this dual-role psychological thriller
Airlift2/5
2016 · Hindi · Mike McCahill
Akshay Kumar is the businessman leading an expat exodus to flee Iraqi invaders – but the aggressors are reduced to cartoon villains in this turgid saga
Tanu Weds Manu: Returns≈3.5/5
2015 · Hindi · Faiza S Khan
Kangana Ranaut shines in this entertaining and slightly unconventional look at marriage which takes swipes at elitism and potshots at patriarchy
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