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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 27 Mar 2014

The Lunchbox is a feast of delights, one of the best stories about the connection between food and love the movies have ever seen…

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By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 27 Mar 2014

Do not attempt to see The Lunchbox on an empty stomach. To do so is simply torture…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 27 Mar 2014

The Lunchbox offers us a naturalistic glimpse of middle-class life in modern Mumbai…

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By Adam Nayman (350) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 21 Mar 2014

If co-writer and director Ritesh Batra occasionally takes his sweet time getting from point A to point B, it’s equally true that he gives…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 20 Mar 2014

The Lunchbox isn’t an example of bravura moviemaking or cutting-edge style but simply a tale told with intelligence, restraint, and respect…

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By Jay Stone (286) for Canada.com (402) on 20 Mar 2014

It's a slight film, but director Ritesh Batra, making his first feature, encompasses the film's gentle performances into the chaos of Mumbai…

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By Tony Wong (12) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 20 Mar 2014

A romantic comedy based on the most trifling and sentimental of conceits, while deftly avoiding a descent into schmaltz…

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By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 20 Mar 2014

Ritesh Batra's charming, melancholic debut, The Lunchbox, is a sign that Indian cinema's renaissance (chafing against the gaudy excess of Bollywood)…

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By Tim Cogshell (223) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 07 Mar 2014

The Lunchbox, sweet and bitter, full of heartache and hope, asks its audience to accept the possibility that something new can happen, and…

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By Mary Houlihan (45) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 07 Mar 2014

The Lunchbox,” Indian director Ritesh Batra’s debut, is a witty and perceptive film that reveals the hopes, sorrows and regrets of ordinary…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Orange County Register (218) on 06 Mar 2014

From the start, the movie mingles savory realism with elements of magic…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Mar 2014

As in an old Nora Ephron comedy, each of the prospective lovers is supplied with an irritating comic foil…

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By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Mar 2014

The Lunchbox resonates with bittersweet realism, and the bold recognition that if some things are meant to be, then others are meant to be…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 06 Mar 2014

The Lunchbox is better as an experience than as a memory. When you're watching it, you can still believe it might actually be heading somewhere…

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By Paul Gallagher (60) for The List (2,018) on 03 Mar 2014

This warm and funny Indian film takes a set-up worthy of the great romantic comedies of Hollywood's golden era and develops it into a touching…

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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 03 Mar 2014

This gentle romantic drama, by the Indian director Ritesh Batra, packs twenty minutes of action into its hour-and-three-quarters running time…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 28 Feb 2014

A charming, bittersweet, utterly chaste love affair forged over food and cemented by kindred spirits…

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By Ethan Alter (997) for Television Without Pity (337) on 28 Feb 2014

The Lunchbox's combination of well-drawn characters, thoughtful storytelling and vividly-realized setting makes it an easy recommendation for…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 28 Feb 2014

It's a slight idea for a film, but director Ritesh Batra (who also cowrote) nicely expands it…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 28 Feb 2014

The Lunchbox, the debut feature from Indian director Ritesh Batra, has such a sweet premise that I sincerely hope it doesn’t get remade with…

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