Full of clichés. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2020

Despite being based on a true story, the film's presentation is overly dramatic and the characters seem too stereotypical.

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

A melodrama dressed up just enough to hold interest, in the retelling of an undeniably important story.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 30, 2009

What should have turned out as a terrific movie about the crime of spousal abuse has instead received the equivalent of a ham-handed molestation by director Mundhra.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 8, 2007

By offsetting Women in Cages-style throw-downs with Malcolm X-like uplift, it is simultaneously strange and familiar, inspiring and annoying.

Full Review | May 30, 2007

The real-life heroes in this story deserve better than a formulaic, poorly shot melodrama.

Full Review | May 21, 2007

The script is melodramatic, and Rai's lead performance is thin stuff.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 18, 2007

[Director] Mundhra can't control the expansiveness of the melodrama or focus on the terseness of realism. Every character in Provoked, from victims to tyrants, Indian to English, loud to quiet, ends up as a grossly exaggerated comic creation.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 18, 2007

In the end, Provoked is not provocative enough.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 18, 2007

Provoked rarely ducks below its glossy surface.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 18, 2007

feels largely meaningless and inconsequential

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 17, 2007

The true-crime drama Provoked has everything to offer except a cinematic point of view and a knack for depicting human beings under duress. Those are major drawbacks.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 17, 2007

Unfortunately, Provoked possesses the tinny production values and schmaltzy music of a prime-time special, despite its ensemble of terrific actors.

| May 17, 2007

Account of a legal campaign launched by women to expose the brutality of domestic violence and male chauvinism.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 17, 2007

Director Jag Mundhra doesn't do enough to clarify that killing, however horrible the man, really isn't okay, even for beautiful women.

| Original Score: C+ | May 16, 2007

In keeping its inflammatory subject matter at arm's length, Provoked does exactly the same to its audience.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 14, 2007

Holy Burning Bed! If Britain had its own equivalent of the Lifetime channel, "Provoked" would be tailor made for it.

| Original Score: D+ | May 12, 2007

PROVOKED: A TRUE STORY sets out to tell an important story in the history of the British judicial system. Unfortunately, the project was undertaken by filmmakers who seemingly didn't know how to handle the implications of the story they wanted to tell.

| Original Score: C | May 11, 2007

Soapy sermon about the landmark case of a battered wife.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 11, 2007

Director Jag Mundhra expends so much energy and screen time to sway us to take Kiranjit's side -- really, we're on her side, we're on her side -- that he doesn't have much left over for anything else.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 11, 2007