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Rachel Saltz

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New York Times film critic.

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Baaghi: a Rebel for Love (2016) 14% EDIT “Mostly Baaghi is a fight movie, and a slightly dull one at that, overstuffed with boom-boom set pieces.” – New York Times Nov 1, 2023 Full Review Gulabo Sitabo (2020) 75% EDIT “Star power aside, it's more chamber work than symphony, more character study than Bollywood blowout. Refreshing on all counts.” – New York Times Jun 12, 2020 Full Review Pyaar Impossible (2010) 40% EDIT “Pyaar Impossible shouldn't work, but does. It's sweet, and as formula goes, deftly done and satisfying.” – New York Times Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Panga (2020) 94% EDIT “Ranaut's Jaya... elevates the movie, putting the story across better than the script can. Ranaut makes Jaya credible and specific; she's not an every woman or every mom or every athlete.” – New York Times Jan 26, 2020 Full Review The Dragon Painter (1919) 91% EDIT “[Hayakawa gives] a wonderful performance that's part comic, part plain odd... The film is a kind of visually sophisticated fairy tale, with tinting (best is the moonlit blue of the night scenes) and neatly composed interiors and silhouettes.” – New York Times Dec 27, 2019 Full Review Dabangg 3 (2019) 18% EDIT “"Dabangg 3" is earnest, and it earnestly wants to deliver thrills. To do so, though, it would have to provide that other essential Bollywood ingredient: emotion.” – New York Times Dec 22, 2019 Full Review Chhichhore (2019) 62% EDIT “Strains to be an inspirational comedy tear-jerker (Bollywood-wise, a reasonable genre) but mostly seems programmatic and timid.” – New York Times Sep 8, 2019 Full Review Saaho (2019) 7% EDIT “The movie is crisply, sometimes stylishly shot, but it's too muddled to be slick and too lacking in charm to establish any emotional stakes.” – New York Times Sep 1, 2019 Full Review Nureyev: Lifting the Curtain (2018) 85% EDIT “Nureyev's sure sense of drama in telling his story isn't matched by the Morrises.” – New York Times Jun 6, 2019 Full Review Kalank (2019) 37% EDIT “Dialogue scenes can be static, stand-and-deliver affairs. And Mr. Varman leaves the actors at sea; when the script calls for character complexity, the result usually reads as incoherence.” – New York Times Apr 19, 2019 Full Review Super Deluxe (2019) 83% EDIT “What was mostly delicate and offbeat tips into something cruder and messier.” – New York Times Mar 29, 2019 Full Review Total Dhamaal (2019) 30% EDIT “A movie that for all its crassness, comic and commercial, is basically good-spirited.” – New York Times Feb 24, 2019 Full Review Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (2019) 71% EDIT “[D]elivering the message of love and tolerance that is this movie's reason to be.” – New York Times Feb 1, 2019 Full Review Padmaavat (2018) 53% EDIT “A lavish 3-D pageant with the depth of a children's pop-up book.” – New York Times Jan 26, 2018 Full Review Dil Bole Hadippa! (2009) 60% EDIT “Ms. Mukherjee's enthusiasm is catchy, and when Veera delivers a feminist speech at the end, she's moving, too.” – New York Times Oct 31, 2017 Full Review The Black Prince (2017) 7% EDIT “A dramatic life does not necessarily a dramatic film make.” – New York Times Jul 20, 2017 Full Review Badrinath Ki Dulhania (2017) 80% EDIT “Hindi cinema conventions and Mr. Khaitan's script may constrict Vaidehi's options, but Ms. Bhatt cannot be contained.” – New York Times Mar 12, 2017 Full Review Raees (2017) 62% EDIT “Avoiding flabby subplots, Mr. Dholakia keeps "Raees" taut and suspenseful, even at two and a half hours, though it probably has a song too many.” – New York Times Jan 26, 2017 Full Review M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016) 75% EDIT “The movie, written and directed by Neeraj Pandey, is not hagiographic or overly obvious. Instead, it's something of a quiet muddle, with too many squandered or dramatically blurry scenes.” – New York Times Oct 2, 2016 Full Review Mohenjo Daro (2016) 36% EDIT “Mr. Roshan, an appealing dancer, works hard to twinkle his way into our affections and make Sarmar something more than a cardboard hero. He can't, but the effort is appreciated.” – New York Times Aug 15, 2016 Full Review Baaghi: A Rebel for Love (1990) 33% EDIT “Mostly "Baaghi" is a fight movie, and a slightly dull one at that, overstuffed with boom-boom set pieces.” – New York Times May 2, 2016 Full Review Kapoor & Sons (2016) 100% EDIT “Even though "Kapoor & Sons" goes from lightly comic to more darkly dramatic to pretty overtly melodramatic, it never loses its lived-in quality or plunges into the absurd.” – New York Times Mar 20, 2016 Full Review Fitoor (2016) 15% EDIT “"Fitoor" doesn't get much political resonance out of its Kashmiri setting, though the wintry sadness of the first scenes has power. Nor does it get much resonance out of class differences between Noor and Firdaus.” – New York Times Feb 11, 2016 Full Review Saala Khadoos (2016) 58% EDIT “Ms. Kongara seems to know the clichés of fighter movies and is mostly unembarrassed to embrace them. That keeps the film humming along, as does Mr. Madhavan, who grows in stature along with Adi.” – New York Times Jan 31, 2016 Full Review Bajirao Mastani (2015) 67% EDIT “The central pair of defiant lovers are never particularly convincing as convention-busters, nor are they as appealing as the rooms they inhabit or the clothes they wear.” – New York Times Dec 17, 2015 Full Review
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