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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEven blood, spilled so freely, has a distinctive intensity of red in this beautiful and harrowing film.
- 90L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn DumpertL.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn DumpertBoth visually and emotionally, a panoramic picture; Mehta wields a master's hand as she weaves together vistas of urban and pastoral India with thoughts on the nature of man as it keeps cycling out in the specifics of history.
- 88Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneAn extraordinary movie on many levels.
- 88New York PostJonathan ForemanNew York PostJonathan ForemanA remarkable accomplishment. It takes one of the century's vast tragedies...and makes it heart-rendingly real and intimate.
- 80Film.comGemma FilesFilm.comGemma FilesMehta's latest release, combines a similarly intoxicating visual immediacy and delight with a sobering outsider's long view.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertTold as a melodrama and romance, not docudrama, and that makes it all the more effective.
- 75Boston GlobeJay CarrBoston GlobeJay CarrHurls its Holocaust at us in a series of justifiably horrific images.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannIt's a passionate, beautifully mounted film -- but the agenda she sets for herself is too large and the conflicts she portrays too complicated to be illustrated in a single drama.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranTelling things through the eyes of a spoiled, precocious, troublemaking 8-year-old narrator is both an overdone device and not a particularly engaging one.
- 40Village VoiceJessica WinterVillage VoiceJessica WinterMehta feels compelled to twist the screw, shamelessly plying her audience with mawkish tropes wearing the garb of "innocence."
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