Kites Reviews

Movie Reviews

• You have been warned

  by David Chute [Village Voice ]

• The result is a lovers-on-the-lam blast of pure pulp escapism, so devoted to diversion that you probably won't even notice the corn

  by Jeannette Catsoulis [NY Times ]

• the overblown action is all part of a piece in a giddy, hyperbolic style that has made Bollywood more popular than Hollywood to much of the world

  by Ted Fry [Seattle Times ]

• The film is rousing, but it does not soar

  by Marjorie Baumgarten [Austin Chronicle ]

• The deliriously entertaining and shamelessly derivative Hindi "Kites" owes more to Hollywood than Bollywood

  by Peter DeBruge [Variety ]

• The constantly shifting tone can be off-putting at first but, by the third act, you find the characters and story growing on you and the romance, despite the histrionics, moving

  by Annlee Ellingson [Moving Pictures Magazine ]

• Kites does carry one distinguishing feature of Bollywood film: the primacy of fate

  by Frank Lovece [Film Journal International ]

• It tells a simple story - an almost archetypal story - but it does so with a lot of passion and technical sophistication

  by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle ]

• Indian star Hrithik Roshan makes a striking international debut in an ambitious Bollywood crossover film

  by Lisa Tsering [Hollywood Reporter ]

• If you don't like the genre, wait three minutes

  by Carrie Rickey [Philadelphia Inquirer ]

• an intense, exciting and highly entertaining film

  by Bruce DeMara [Toronto Star ]

• "Kites" is so heady and naive a brew, it would have been perfect for the silent screen

  by Kevin Thomas [LA Times ]

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