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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 21 Jan 2021

The characters don’t quite come to life…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 20 Jan 2021

While Mr…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 19 Jan 2021

The moral conundrums aren’t particularly thorny, since Balram’s revenge is well-earned…

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By Hanna Flint (37) for Empire (3,446) on 19 Jan 2021

Ramin Bahrani offers a kinetic and textured satirical commentary on caste friction in modern India with Adarsh Gourav serving up an immensely…

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By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 19 Jan 2021

Bahrani’s adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker Prize-winning debut novel may have a heightened air of fantastical satire, but it’s happily-ever-after…

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By Aparita Bhandari (53) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 19 Jan 2021

The script is taut, the actors perform their roles well and some neat visual and sound design elements add texture to this portrayal of rising…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Jan 2021

There’s little of the intimacy of Bahrani’s best work, and while the book has been described as dark-humored, the movie feels more like…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 08 Jan 2021

Gourav is frankly devastating, his face a cracked mask of pain and disbelief. In others he's ruthless, calculating, even cruel…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 08 Jan 2021

As he demonstrated with the recession-themed “99 Homes,” Bahrani is a cynical observer of the forces underling cultural upheaval; the story…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Jan 2021

Ramin Bahrani’s film is a turbulent and snarkily self-aware melodrama about breathless social climbing…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 05 Jan 2021

The White Tiger illustrates the extremes to which the poor are driven to violate the rigid class structure of India, with the implication that…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 05 Jan 2021

A film of a bumpy, brilliant debut novel which was ground-breaking at the time, Bahrami’s propulsive piece dazzles, and quibbles are easily…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 05 Jan 2021

An immersive plunge into the chasm separating the servant class from the rich in contemporary India, the drama observes corruption at the highest…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 05 Jan 2021

It’s a punchy, propulsive watch, blown along by snappy editing and a hip-hop-driven soundtrack that stresses that there’s still much fun…

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By Roxana Hadadi (336) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 05 Jan 2021

Scene by scene, The White Tiger punctures the fantasy that a rich man could also be a nice man, and although the comedy here is pitch-black,…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 05 Jan 2021

It’s flecked with murderous black humor, told with all the subtlety of getting run over by a car, and generally sees Indian society as a…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 05 Jan 2021

The White Tiger isn’t a fairy tale, but by the end the movie still leaves you feeling that it has made a wish into a command…

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By Jacob Oller (247) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 05 Jan 2021

Though the filmmaking is perfectly competent and sometimes engaging, these moments where things click in a way that doesn’t feel like a teacher…

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