The film is a worthy effort. The scenes of 'ethnic cleansing' in 1984 are horrific, especially an efficient, cold-blooded attack on a train.

| Feb 15, 2021

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Shot with remarkable confidence and an understated eloquence.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 21, 2007

A work of evident passion and outrage, Amu is also remarkable for its humanism and persuasive, natural presentation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2007

Less about finger-pointing than a plea for India to confront its past.

Full Review | Jun 15, 2007

An admirable labor of love that stumbles dramatically but gets along on its sincere good intentions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2007

The flashback sequences are vibrant and intense, and the film's long closing shot is so dense with feeling for a nation and its people that Bose deserves to be noted as a filmmaker to watch.

| Jun 14, 2007

[Amu] is clearly a labor of love for the activist filmmaker, as she breaks all the traditional inhibitions of Bollywood to remind the world of -- and, for most of us, reveal for the first time -- one of the most shameful episodes in Indian history.

| May 30, 2007

In Shonali Bose's tightly constructed debut feature (2005) a young Indian-American woman from Los Angeles returns to Delhi for the first time since childhood to visit her relatives.

| May 25, 2007

[Though] undermined by uneven performances, preachy digressions and a handful of clunky scenes, it's nonetheless compelling on a personal level.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 25, 2007

Fails to grab the imagination as it unfolds in familiar 온라인카지노추천-movie fashion.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 25, 2007

[Director Bose] has a genuine gift for atmosphere, making the many wordless scenes, in teeming streets and on crowded trains, the movie's best.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 25, 2007

The flat, pat talk is symptomatic of Amu's overriding problem: It has no sense of personal style.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | May 25, 2007

Amu, the ambitious debut feature by Shonali Bose, wears its political heart on its sleeve and is unafraid to tackle big topics: identity, history, truth, injustice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2007

1984 may have a certain negative meaning to Westerners ever since Orwell immortalized that futuristic dystopia. But for India's Sikhs, 1984 has a far more dreaded historical significance, and one oddly buried here deep within their collective memory.

Full Review | May 24, 2007

Writer-director Shonali Bose makes a sensational feature debut with this moving, powerful and suspenseful film.

| May 24, 2007

Too bad first-time writer-director Shonali Bose's juxtaposition of the personal and the political often feels forced, and like many didactic history lessons, this one's about 20 minutes too long.

| May 23, 2007

Deeply affecting tale of the slaughter of Sikhs in 1984.

| May 11, 2007

We wait a long time for the political points to become resonant as the movie slogs through aimless, dull, family chit-chat.

| Original Score: C+ | May 10, 2007

[Director] Bose embeds her history lesson in a drama with authentic emotional mother-daughter conflict.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 16, 2007