Intellectually bankrupt, morally reprehensible and stylistically inept, Sandeep Reddy Vanga's Animal is about as irredeemable as they come.

| Feb 3, 2024

The movies best and worst qualities come from how bold and excessive everything is. The movie is totally unrestrained. That makes the sequences and characters memorable, but it also makes the runtime totally unnecessary.

| Original Score: B | Jan 19, 2024

Trashy, idiotic, and filled with disgusting bloody violence that's overly repetitive, Animal is excruciatingly too long at about 200 minutes. This garbage movie has no redeeming qualities. It's yet another stupid story about feuding and vengeful families.

| Dec 12, 2023

Beyond the never ending reign of bullets and butcherings, both Animal and Kapoor's vicious Ranvijay remain hollow.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 11, 2023

Animal is a complicated film with a top-tier Ranbir Kapoor, who delivers a powerhouse performance that is worth the price of admission alone. What the film lacks in substance, director Sandeep Reddy Vanga makes up for with sheer audacity and bloodshed.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 7, 2023

Ranbir Kapoor is deeply committed to his brash and ugly protagonist, but in spite of the movie’s explosive action, director Sandeep Reddy Vanga seems more preoccupied with provoking outrage than with telling a coherent story.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 6, 2023

Boring, blood-spattered film... Animal’s terrible attitude to women runs alongside a cunning use of India’s religious minorities.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Dec 6, 2023

Bigger, longer, bloodier: Animal is all that and more.

| Dec 5, 2023

A story which is cheerfully misogynistic, morally bankrupt and stomach-churningly violent. All of which I could have endured if the drama and emotions had held.

| Dec 5, 2023

It is easy to dismiss Animal as an indulgent film, one that achieves none of what it sets out to. It is. It is repulsive, revolting, and one-and-a-half- hours too long. But it is also a film that unravels as retaliation.

| Dec 5, 2023

The film washes past you, like sandpaper being rubbed against your aesthetic and moral convictions.

| Dec 4, 2023

Watch Animal to see Anil Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor rising above the ridiculous to give a sublime performance.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 4, 2023

Ranbir Kapoor stars in a blood-soaked drama about daddy issues that is screaming at the top of its lungs with nothing to say.

| Dec 4, 2023

Ranbir Kapoor plays one of the vilest protagonists in cinema history.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 4, 2023

ANIMAL is a pretty crazy, but somehow totally original and fresh THE GODFATHER remix, with an insane Ranbir Kapoor, a super strong Rashmika Mandanna, great music and, above all, the right amount of humor and irony.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 3, 2023

The main objective is to serve up everything and the kitchen sink. It can’t be called a cinematic feast, as it is a chore for moviegoers forced to digest heaps of plot points and tangents.

| Dec 3, 2023

At three hours 21 minutes, Animal is relentless as a euphoric medley of feral rage and dance of the dysfunctional. The twists go on well until end credits as more blood is splattered our way. Welcome to the jungle.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2023

Like nearly every factor here, the songs and blood-soaked interludes alike are not without skill, but get kick-dropped into an inorganic whole uninterested in integrating them to sustained, logical or emotionally credible effect.

| Dec 2, 2023

During the interval, I was at a loss of theories. I didn’t know what to make of him or the film. All I could ask was: What’s the point? Why is Animal?

| Dec 1, 2023

Animal is an adrenaline experience which will have polarising views but you can't deny its entertaining quotient, breathtaking performances and storytelling.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 1, 2023