The film's semblance of casualness is winning. It seems to make itself up as it goes along. But this fly on this wall has keen eyes, keen hearing, a keen intelligence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2016

Just when you imagined that the courtroom drama had no particular place left to go, along comes Chaitanya Tamhane's fiendishly clever debut feature.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 8, 2016

Perceptive and powerful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2016

Here's a film-maker training a sharp, prosecutorial eye on those harsh homefront realities Bollywood has traditionally permitted audiences to escape.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2016

Court is fascinating, affecting and completely engrossing while delivering a devastating critique of a system so antiquated and absurd that a woman is told her case won't be heard today because she is wearing a sleeveless top.

| Mar 24, 2016

Court is both a grimly compelling legal drama and a devastating attack on India's seemingly outmoded justice system.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2016

Although the film is an unruffled work of fiction, the absurdity of the legal and political state of affairs it quietly but powerfully comments upon may be all too real.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 28, 2015

The courtroom drama is more than a simple indictment, exposing the social divides between generations and castes at play in the farce before the judge.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2015

Untrained actor Vira Sathidar is wonderful as Kamble, a proud man who remains stoic even as an antiquated and often-absurd legal system chips away at his freedom.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 27, 2015

This isn't your typical courtroom drama about an idealistic attorney with a savior complex per se. The film dramatizes how authorities can systematically police thought and harass radicals with bogus charges.

| Aug 13, 2015

Writer-director Chaitanya Tamhane, making his feature debut, structures his story as a courtroom drama, and the legal intricacies of the case are sufficiently absorbing for the movie to succeed on that score alone.

| Jul 23, 2015

Suffused with a pointed, cool, never didactic despair, Tamhane's narrative-feature debut exposes India's highly dysfunctional judicial system, one still upholding scores of laws dating back to British rule almost seventy years after independence.

| Jul 15, 2015

Tamhane's quiet techniques build to pure, cold fury.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2015

For the most part, Tamhane improbably succeeds in creating a damning courtroom drama that derives much of its power from observing the cogs in the machinery when the machine is switched off.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 15, 2015

It treats the audience as both witness and jury and lays out a sprawling argument for them to ponder over. It's hard to shake this one off long after the credits have rolled.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 15, 2015

The film conjures an absurdist nightmare of bureaucratic incompetence, indifference and social inequity.

| Jul 14, 2015

Court is one of the strongest debut features in years.

| Jul 14, 2015

But these digressions, if seen as the true thrust of the film, have much to offer.

| Jul 1, 2015

Court shows us where we are at in India today, and it is not pretty.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2015

Chaitanya Tamhane emerges as one of the world's most accomplished and promising film-makers under 30 with his quietly steely legal drama Court, a bluntly-titled chronicle of politically-motivated injustice.

| Apr 16, 2015