The director doesn’t have the greatest feel for tempo, or a consistent flair for staging.

| Feb 2, 2023

A sprawling, mountainous tangle of pulp that stacks one genre on top of the next with an arbitrary verve.

| Feb 1, 2023

While its reach may exceed its grasp, any shortcomings of Pathaan are papered over by the sheer charisma of its lead actor [Shah Rukh Khan], who once again demonstrates why he is one of the most popular movie stars in the world.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2023

An amateurish Indian super-spy thriller that’s never as well-executed as it is conceptually goofy and politically dubious.

| Jan 29, 2023

I am here to tell you that Bollywood and Shah Rukh Khan are back, aided in no small part by other celebrities such as Deepika Padukone and John Abraham, in this slick action-thriller.

| Jan 26, 2023

Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone-starrer has finally got what’s needed in a spy thriller -- non-stop action, glamorous leads, the guy who can save the world, a high-octane set piece, and an emo line at a time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2023

Khan delivers a performance with perfect levels of fun, and light on Bond-ish psychological flaws, playing it instead with a wink here, a joke there.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2023

Spectacular action set-pieces, clever writing and in-your-face charisma of its stars including Shah Rukh Khan in a long-awaited return to the big screen make it, in Indian parlance, paisa vasool - a film well worth the price of admission.

| Jan 25, 2023

Shah Rukh Khan said that he came to Bollywood to be an action hero but missed the boat. It’s taken him 32 years to do his first full-fledged action film Pathaan, which is the fourth film in the Yash Raj Films Spyverse. The wait was worth it.

| Jan 25, 2023