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By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 25 Apr 2013

Stirring, beautifully filmed and highly personal history of India does right by Salman Rushdie's celebrated novel…

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By Rachel Saltz (165) for New York Times (5,786) on 24 Apr 2013

The film needs an injection of Bollywood’s unembarrassed, anything-goes, bigger-than-life spirit, which embraces willy-nilly — as does…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 24 Apr 2013

To be sure, there are many reasons to see the film…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 24 Apr 2013

Both dreamy and dramatic, a fascinating view of Indian history seen through the prism of a personal story…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Apr 2013

Even if you've read the novel, and are prepared for the long running time and haphazard structure, this isn't a movie you should expect to…

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By Huda O (2) on 22 Apr 2013

Midnights Children is a journey of all the people who had nothing to do with politics, who just wanted to survive and wanted happiness at the…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Apr 2013

It’s a vibrant journey, but not a terribly illuminating one…

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By Alfin N (428) on 21 Apr 2013

You don't have to love Salman Rushdie, or hate Indira Gandhi, to like it…

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By Ming Siu G (306) on 31 Mar 2013

I liked the movie even so the story was a bit complex…

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By Bridget C (73) on 07 Feb 2013

A satisfactory (not great) adaptation of a Literary Masterpiece…

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By Srikanth V (18) on 05 Feb 2013

Salman Rushdie had better write another masterpiece for having descended into this mess, exposing his naiveté with the film craft, and for…

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By Manhar V (7) on 03 Feb 2013

The first half is interesting, but then there's just too much in terms of the story that is going on, and it leaves behind scenes that feel…

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By Ashtaad V (7) on 22 Jan 2013

Loved that Salman Rushdie wrote the screenplay and then narrated the thing…

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By Lola M (55) on 20 Jan 2013

I enjoyed this film however found parts of it (especially the beginning) hard to follow as it switches between English an subtitles very quickly…

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By Brigid B (4) on 05 Jan 2013

A beautiful,moving, film which plunges us into the political turmoil of India since independence and moved along by the intense, engaging,…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 04 Jan 2013

With an over-written screenplay and far too much material for audiences to digest, this film proves the rule that authors shouldn't adapt their…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 31 Dec 2012

Considering Midnight's Children is bound up in notions of identity, it is faintly disastrous that this adaptation should be so lacking in one…

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By Steve J (513) on 30 Dec 2012

Really like the story, probably more than Life of Pi but it's a slow burner folks…

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By Brian Pendreigh (23) for Radio Times (2,421) on 27 Dec 2012

The film is stunningly beautiful…

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By Grant Rollings (123) for The Sun (UK) (932) on 27 Dec 2012

There is not enough space here to detail the plot, which is basically about two boys whose paths are swapped on the evening of India's independence…

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