The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Reviews

Movie Reviews

• too well made to be dismissed and contains too much truth to be scorned

  by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle ]

• this is a rare and refreshing package, handing the usual couplings, comedy, and dramatic beats not just to older characters, but to older characters embodied by near-infallible actors

  by R. Kurt Osenlund [Slant Magazine ]

• this exceptional ensemble makes aging in exotic climes feel effortlessly real, never over-reaching, appropriately fraught

  by Betsy Sharkey [Los Angeles Times ]

• the unusual thing aboutThe Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is that the youngest member of the primary seven is 60 years old

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• the tale unfolds as both a personal and social odyssey

  Review rate : B- by Emanuel Levy [EmanuelLevy.Com ]

• the rest makes you long for senility to set in, but quick

  by Keith Uhlich [Time Out New York ]

• plays like the Disoriented Express

  by Ty Burr [Boston Globe ]

• none is very engaging, and most of the supporting cast play passive, cozy, ever-accommodating South Asian stereotypes

  by Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]

• its ace in the hole is its pungent depiction of Jaipur's teeming streets, which give an otherwise well-mannered movie a blinding splash of color

  by Stephen Holden [New York Times ]

• it's pretty common for such utterly pat material to be redeemed or at least made tolerable by a cast of first-rate performers

  by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]

• it's a sweet-tempered folly in which all's well that ends well

  by Ella Taylor [NPR ]

• has that oh-so-tactful British touch, the seeming result of an industry-wide gentleman's agreement never to go too far

  by Nick Pinkerton [Village Voice ]

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