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By Namrata Joshi (252) for Outlook (155) on 23 Jan 2019

Despite being based on a true story, the film's presentation is overly dramatic and the characters seem too stereotypical…

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By Ken Fox (1,094) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 25 Jul 2016

For all the gushy feelings, the plight of women like Kiranjit, bound not only by domineering, often physically abusive husbands but by racism…

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By Derek Elley (230) for Variety (12,700) on 29 May 2016

Mixed Indian and Western cast --turn the true story of a case that changed British law into an old-style melodrama (in the best sense) complete…

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By Steven Mikulan (15) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 12 Nov 2015

Unfortunately, syrupy music, reductive characterizations and bland cinematography turn her case into an earnest feminist fable that plays like…

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By V.a. Musetto (698) for New York Post (6,650) on 18 Feb 2014

A clueless Mundhra tackles the subject with a heavy hand and a contrived script…

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By Jack Mathews (1,044) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 03 Dec 2013

Rai's acting is frustratingly passive in Provoked, and the script is laced with prison and courtroom cliches…

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By Kamal Al-Solaylee (29) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 02 Aug 2013

In a picture that begins with a torching scene and goes on to mine the burning question of the rights of abused women to strike back, Provoked…

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By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 Jul 2013

A well-intentioned, but all-thumbs down drama…

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By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Dec 2012

Short-changing issues of race and wearing its heart way out on its sleeve, it's the film's amateur exposition that's most dumbfounding -- poised…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 26 May 2012

Unfortunately, in keeping its inflammatory subject matter at arm’s length, Provoked does exactly the same to its audience…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 06 Feb 2012

Most of the ingredients for a strong, tough film are there, and they have been sadly botched by a few key collaborators…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Oct 2011

There's a noble cause buried under all the clumsy speeches, blatant manipulations, and foreordained conflicts, but the thudding lack of subtlety…

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By Carina Chocano (358) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 28 Apr 2011

Chopped into episodes headed by typewritten dates, Provoked turns the case of a lifetime into something straight out of Lifetime…

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By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Jan 2011

No one breaks into song, but this fact-based legal drama about a battered Anglo-Indian wife on trial for murdering her husband is infected…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 08 Dec 2009

Unfortunately, Provoked possesses the tiny production values and schmaltzy music of a prime-time special, despite its ensemble of terrific actors…

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By Craig Phillips (10) for GreenCine (40) on 29 Jul 2009

A melodrama dressed up just enough to hold interest, in the retelling of an undeniably important story…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 25 Mar 2008

There's an interesting movie in here, too, about the isolation of Indian brides brought to a new country by strange new husbands and mistreated,…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 16 Aug 2007

What should have turned out as a terrific movie about the crime of spousal abuse has instead received the equivalent of a ham-handed molestation…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 17 Jun 2007

Based on a true story, this Indian variation on a theme of The Burning Bed emphasizes the psychological freedom the inmate finds behind bars…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 29 May 2007

By offsetting Women in Cages-style throw-downs with Malcolm X-like uplift, it is simultaneously strange and familiar, inspiring and annoying…

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Film critics gave Provoked (2007) an average score of 45%, indicating generally mixed reviews.

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