Bhaji is a feminist declaration, but not a harangue. It gives ample scope for anyone to identify with. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 7, 2022

As a look at the Afro-Asian community in Britain, it’s everything one could ask for: funny and serious at the same time, good-tempered but not afraid of giving offence.

Full Review | Feb 14, 2022

In the film, beachside donkey rides, ferris wheels, striped deck chairs and the blue expanse of the ocean aren't just seasonal pleasures, they're images of liberation.

| May 12, 2021

The boardwalk, fountains, sandy beaches and a carnival atmosphere electrify and intensify the emotions of the day. By the end, you don't know if everything will be all right, but you have no doubt that everything will be different.

| May 10, 2021

The scenes in Blackpool are vibrant, funny and finally quite complex and powerful.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 10, 2021

There is flavoursome charm in the performances and the seedy-photogenic setting.

| May 10, 2021

Chadha has a great eye, and there's scarcely a frame of Bhaji on the Beach that doesn't offer up something beguiling or entrancing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2021

Pleasant enough while it lasts (notwithstanding some overemphatic fantasy scenes, in mockery of the Bombay cinema, and a heavy-handed face-off with a wife-beater), but nothing much to remember the next morning.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 19, 2021

The film raises tough questions of tradition and assimilation, and rightly refuses to give any answers.

| Mar 18, 2021

A perceptive, shrewd and funny view of the culture clash (though the clash is a very gentle one).

| Mar 18, 2021

It's a shame to write off Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji On The Beach as merely a "worthy" project that deserves better, but that's how It looks from here.

| Mar 18, 2021

It's not always funny, its not always pretty it's not even consistently well-shot but thanks to a wonderful cast and sincere direction Bhaji an the Beach is a delightful film full of surprises that will stick in your heart like a deep-fried dumpling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2021

[Gurinder Chadra and Meera Syal] keep their contrasted, if somewhat predictable stories bobbing along nicely.

| Mar 18, 2021

The unique script, written by Meera Syal from a story conceived by Chadha, gives each actress a chance to shine.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2021

It's a well-balanced movie that performs a rare triple feat - to make you laugh, feel and think.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 18, 2021

Yet even when the film develops a case of third-act-itis, leaving Ms. Chadha too busy tying up loose ends, it sustains its intelligence and charm.

| Mar 18, 2021

"Bhaji on the Beach" is an ambitious film that doesn't always work. Yet there is enough there to warrant a look.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 18, 2021

The overall style is realist, though there are a few fleeting fantasy interludes that don't work very well.

| Mar 18, 2021

The film's great strength is the way it interweaves the different plot strands so that each one develops into a fascinating little story in its own right before being neatly brought together at the end.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2021

At times the hypocritical old ladies are a little too easy a target for Chadha's irony, but their Technicolor fantasies about Indian romance, or about the loose morals of the younger women, strike a note of high hilarity.

| Mar 18, 2021