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An extraordinary movie on many levels.
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75
San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
It'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.
80
Mehta's latest release, combines a similarly intoxicating visual immediacy and delight with a sobering outsider's long view.
90
L.A. Weekly by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Both 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.
75
Hurls its Holocaust at us in a series of justifiably horrific images.
40
Village Voice by Jessica Winter
Mehta feels compelled to twist the screw, shamelessly plying her audience with mawkish tropes wearing the garb of "innocence."
88
New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
A remarkable accomplishment. It takes one of the century's vast tragedies...and makes it heart-rendingly real and intimate.
70
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Telling things through the eyes of a spoiled, precocious, troublemaking 8-year-old narrator is both an overdone device and not a particularly engaging one.
91
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Even blood, spilled so freely, has a distinctive intensity of red in this beautiful and harrowing film.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Told as a melodrama and romance, not docudrama, and that makes it all the more effective.