Romance prevails in A Nice Indian Boy, a feel-good film with a sensitive and intelligent perspective on the complex intersections of cultural traditions, queerness, love and family.

| Apr 22, 2025

A Nice Indian Boy is just a lovely, saccharine film. As a rom-com lover, it’s such a treat to get to watch something so effusively beautiful and just filled with love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2025

It's cheese of a faintly curdled kind.

| Apr 18, 2025

This is slick, well-cast, lively, and touching at times -- but also incredibly formulaic.

| Apr 17, 2025

Roshan Sethi’s quietly confident film unspools a tender love story between two men—and the generations learning to accept them—with wit, nuance and no interest in cliché.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 15, 2025

Joyously endearing evidence that well-written rom-coms remain an affirming pleasure, A Nice Indian Boy hits all the familiar notes, but damn, it does so with exhilaration.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 14, 2025

It’s very easy to ignore A Nice Indian Boy‘s faults because it tells a story that feels familiar, but forges its own path. We need more queer rom-coms and it will be easy to welcome A Nice Indian Boy into that growing canon.

| Original Score: A | Apr 14, 2025

It’s pure joy watching Naveen grow and learn to experience what Jay calls “the bigness of love.”

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 12, 2025

It begins and ends with a wedding, but it’s what’s in between that results in you being hitched to “A Nice Indian Boy.” Thriving on a combination of charm and hard truths, it’s an astute celebration of family, no matter how big of a pain it can be.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 12, 2025

A Nice Indian Boy is a heartwarming, if not slight love story - one perfectly suited for a Sunday afternoon with a warm cup of tea.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2025

The bigness of love is indeed embarrassing. But what A Nice Indian Boy expresses deeply is the heartfelt confessions of true love with over-the-top displays of affection that win the hearts of its viewers.

| Apr 11, 2025

Combined with the sharp, funny, and insightful script and the generosity of Sethi’s directorial approach, which frames each character with respect and import to the story, it all makes “A Nice Indian Boy” a nice crowd-pleasing movie to see.

| Apr 10, 2025

A Nice Indian Boy comes under the gentle direction of Roshan Sethi who knows all the ways to play up this storybook romance while still making this a relatable and realistic story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2025

With its emphasis on family and culture, A Nice Indian Boy winds up feeling pretty wholesome, without crossing over into smugness. It’s, well, nice.

| Original Score: B | Apr 9, 2025

A lovely, perfectly affecting little film.

| Apr 9, 2025

A wonderful film that explores different generations of Indian families and speaks back to cultural taboos with humor, sweetness, and depth.

| Apr 9, 2025

A Nice Indian Boy doesn’t upend expectations, but it knows how to sprinkle in idiosyncrasies and craftsmanship into rom-com norms.

| Apr 7, 2025

Blandly sweet gay romance 'A Nice Indian Boy' looks great but lacks buoyancy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 6, 2025

A Nice Indian Boy is a sweet rom-com about religion, gay love in your thirties, and learning to be an adult.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 6, 2025

even though some minor arcs feel more like tangents that story builders, the end result of the film will leave you smiling and possibly crying… but in a good way.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 4, 2025