Viceroy's House

IndieWire by Ben Croll

This material could make for a powerful work, but Viceroy’s House is certainly not it.

Time Out London by Dave Calhoun

At the human level, this is shallow, and Chadha clumsily fuses political drama with romantic melodrama.

Variety by Guy Lodge

Such a sprawling, two-pronged saga may well have been better served in television miniseries format.

TheWrap by Inkoo Kang

Director Gurinder Chadha (“It’s a Wonderful Afterlife,” “Bend It Like Beckham”) attempts to explore the cataclysmic human costs of the Partition without humanizing any of the Indian characters. And so we’re offered, on the 70th anniversary of the Partition (give or take a couple of weeks), another film about how brown suffering makes nice white people sad.

Slant Magazine by Jake Cole

The only thing that offsets the film's self-negating revisionism are the scenes involving Gillian Anderson vicereine.

Total Film by James Mottram

Fascinating story, flawed telling.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

Viceroy’s House is no very profound work, but it is a nimble and watchable period drama.

The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton

Chadha has distilled a fascinating and epic true story into a starchy, stuffy, sanitized period piece that never fully engages on an emotional or educational level.

The Telegraph by Tim Robey

There’s only so much in this desperately involved historical saga that Chadha and her screenwriters are able to grapple with.

Screen International by Wendy Ide

One of the main strengths of Chadha’s approach is the way she weaves the historical detail into the richly textured story with such a light touch.