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

Shot with remarkable confidence and an understated eloquence.

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

[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

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

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

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

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

Good intentions do eventually trump mediocre drama and the climactic flashbacks of the riots, as Sikhs are torn out of homes and trains by murderous mobs, are the stuff of nightmares.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 16, 2007