This bland, sombre love story from the director of The Lunchbox (2013) lacks that film's flavour.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 4, 2019

It's an artful look at two misfit loners who find each other. But only just.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 2, 2019

There are some nice touches, and the bustle of Mumbai is always fascinating, and the performances are good all-round, but whatever Batra hoped this would add up to it doesn't.

| Aug 1, 2019

Well made, well performed, just a little too tamped down for its own good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2019

Sanya Malhotra's reserve does suggest reserves - of thought, emotion, romantic depth and perplexity. But the script wanders like a thing distracted.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2019

Photograph finds new ways to tell a familiar fairy tale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2019

Photograph is decidedly old-fashioned and the outcome is never in doubt but the craft is impeccable, the performances low-key and likeable plus there is something persuasive about Batra's gentle worldview, his faith in people and love restorative.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2019

It is weirdly opaque and internalised, and doesn't ever really come to life.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 26, 2019

Like Polaroids and introverted people, Photograph takes its time developing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2019

This too-languidly-paced film lacks the emotional payoff of The Lunchbox, and rising newcomer Malhotra is not yet in Siddiqui's league.

| May 29, 2019

Batra's artistry has its own distinct, soft-spoken personality and soulfulness. It's a pity he couldn't share some of that with the people in his picture.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2019

"Photograph" has a ways to go to sell its central love story. But Batra's touch is so tender that "Photograph" builds a sweetness that overcompensates for its shortcomings.

| Original Score: B- | May 24, 2019

There's a good deal of heart, art, sympathy, and substance here, which is why's it's all the more frustrating that "Photograph" fails to develop.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 24, 2019

The film's small, quiet moments are its most alluring feature, although it's possible the film may ultimately be too quiet for its own good.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 23, 2019

It may be that the stories in movies are all the same. But it can be lovely when a movie like this one finds a different way to tell them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 17, 2019

It's a movie that takes its own sweet time getting to a conclusion that will surprise no one, but it has a stillness, an evocativeness, that expresses far more than its rather paltry plot.

| Original Score: B+ | May 17, 2019

The action - if that's what you call two people wandering around Mumbai - unfolds with the slow, intimate rhythms of classic Indian cinema, lightly juiced with the goofy high spirits and populist common touch of Bollywood.

| May 16, 2019

Miloni and Rafi's shy romance becomes sweet because of, not despite, the languid pace of its development.

| May 16, 2019

Patient viewers who enjoy deeply felt films that take their sweet (in a good way) time to tell a small, human and relatable story should find writer-director Ritesh Batra's... "Photograph" a lovely, charming and gently transporting journey.

| May 16, 2019

If the story is familiar, the storytelling can be immersive - Batra shades in the leads and their worlds with a human specificity that makes "Photograph" compelling in a slice-of-life way, particularly regarding class in India.

| May 16, 2019