It's handsome, important, and moving in places, but it just isn't enough movie for the subject matter.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 9, 2017

There's something pleasantly old-fashioned about "Viceroy's House." It feels like a Merchant Ivory period piece posing cultural questions within a safely cushioned environment. There are no guessing games, but also very little subtext.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2017

"Viceroy's House" works, but mainly as a historical refresher on the 70th anniversary of Indian independence. As drama, it's a reminder that truth is sometimes more affecting than fiction.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 7, 2017

Ultimately, Viceroy's House might be worth a visit just for certain tasty details.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2017

And so we're offered, on the 70th anniversary of the Partition (give or take a couple of weeks), another film about how brown suffering makes nice white people sad. The cynicism is well-earned.

| Sep 1, 2017

The formula is a bit too neat and the dialogue is often painfully expository, but there are some fine performances ...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 1, 2017

At the end of this sprawling, passionate but generously non-partisan epic, a moving coda reveals the director's personal stake in telling the story her way. You should stay for the credits.

| Aug 31, 2017

Proves a far more absorbing and thematically rich experience than its history-lesson trappings might imply.

| Aug 31, 2017

The film carries a trace of the sweep of a great screen epic along with the straightforward, explanatory qualities of mass-audience 온라인카지노추천, and is never less than absorbing.

| Aug 31, 2017

Using the trappings of old-fashioned romanticism, Chadha envisions the cataclysmic upheaval of millions in the traumatic lives of a few.

| Aug 30, 2017

The only thing that offsets the film's self-negating revisionism are the scenes involving Gillian Anderson vicereine.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 29, 2017

Anderson's performance is a meticulous assemblage of gestures and intonations -- stiff-necked posture together with an aristocratic drawl -- which sit oddly but believably with Edwina's liberal disposition and sharp instinct for game-playing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2017

All this detail makes this British-Indian co-production fascinating on many levels, and the decision to stage almost all the action in and around the Viceroy's House was an apt one.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 19, 2017

Fascinating, infuriating, entertaining and perhaps misleading.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 17, 2017

Chadha ... has set out to make a personal-political drama with a solidly populist edge, a bold ambition for which deserves three cheers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2017

Fighting a stealth war on conventional thinking, Chadha offers us a tantalising epic, what you might call a halfway house.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2017

A drama that observes the politicking in the run-up to the partition of India and Pakistan into separate Hindu-majority and Muslim-majority states.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2017

The cast are as grand as the gaff. Fans of BBC costume drama will likely be happy cinema patrons.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2017

Too quaint, too polite, too focused on the light comedy rather than the terrifying drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 2, 2017

The pain and bloodshed of partition is distilled in a Romeo and Juliet romance, trite and tokenist, between a Hindu servant and his Muslim beloved.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 2, 2017