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Gandhi
PG (SINGAPORE)
1982
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Positive Reviews
35
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
3.9
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5.0
They do it with solemnity, quiet warmth, and perhaps just a touch of shyness; they are simultaneously demonstrating an aspect of Indian culture and to ..
Rogerebert
5.0
The film chronicles a period of conflict in South African and Indian history, between whites and darker skinned people, British and Indians, and Hindu ..
Common Sense Media
5.0
In short, this is a film in the grand style, with all the punctuation marks meticulously placed.
Variety
4.5
Its faults rather pale beside the epic nature of its theme, and Kingsleys performance in the central role is outstanding.
Time Out
2.5
Gandhi is less personal than Reds, but also less complacent than Chariots of Fire and less doddering than Leans own orderly post colonial apologia, A ..
3.0
Attenborough may stop short of shameless, nostalgic hero worship, but he can often be detected sanitizing Gandhis story in several respects.
4.5
An epic biopic, over three hours in length, Gandhi captures the spirit of the man and his struggles.
4.0
In fact, strip away the scope and spectacle and what Gandhi boils down to dramatically at least is a good, old fashioned man against the system movie.
3.0
But in the directors unwillingness to excite the tale, as if its disapproving subject was keeping a keen eye from whatever heaven he was taken to, the ..
5.0
The scene showing the terrible Amritsar massacre, in which a platoon of British soldiers, led by the rigidly determined Gen. Dyer (Edward Fox), mow do ..
Ny Daily News
5.0
Gandhi offers us a conscience exercising, mind stretching, and growth inducing experience, as it teaches us about a heroic man who was an ethical gian ..
Spirituality And Practice
3.0
Despite an intelligent title performance by Ben Kingsley and impressive cinematography in the manner of David Lean, this huge, clunky biopic offers le ..
Tv Guide
1.5
Attenboroughs work lacks even the undercurrent of personality that David Lean brought to his films: the film has no flavor but that of the standard Ho ..
Chicago Reader
5.0
Review Our Score by Andrew Collins Richard Attenboroughs stately biopic of Mahatma Gandhi has all the hallmarks of David Lean: historical scope; sure ..
Radio Times
3.0
Tthe film Gandhi is more stuffy than stately, more prestigious than prodigious. It never quite captures the essence of Gandhi, or the influence he exe ..
Cs Monitor
1.5
You dont look very Indian, guest star Om Puri tells New York born Avatar heavy Stephen Lang, playing shifty new security chief Sunil Raina.
The Guardian
4.5
Oscars Best Picture 1982 unforgettable movie moment: An audience of Indian men rise silently one by one in agreement with Gandhis nonviolent stand Gan ..
3.0
Despite an intelliegnt performance by Ben Kingsley in the lead, Attenborousghs worthy biopic is too conventional in illuminating the venerable leader.
Emanuellevy
4.0
He is, of course, Sir Richard Attenborough, and his book In Search of Gandhi (Bodley Head 9.95), is both an autobiography and an account of a 20 year ..
Guardian
4.0
However, while it certainly is an epic film painted on a broad and beautiful canvas, it is very difficult to engage with it.
Eye For Film
4.5
In playing Gandhi, an actor must be less concerned with physical verisimilitude than with spiritual presence, and here Kingsley is nothing short of as ..
Time
4.0
Debut director Feroz Abbas Khan adapts his hit play Mahatma v/s Gandhi for the screen with mixed results.
Total Film
3.5
His unagitated suffering and patience are, perhaps, more resounding than any of the rambunctious protests.
4.5
Its safe to say that if you knew nothing about Gandhi before going in to the movie, you wouldnt know a whole lot more coming out.
Film 4
2.0
All that is required is the courage and humility to be a true victim for your cause.
Decent Films
4.5
Its quite refreshing to see a film that caters to its target audience and at least tries to not insult it.
News18
5.0
This rightly lauded epic charts Gandhis rise from impoverished nobody to lasting symbol of peace and understanding throughout the world.
Sky
4.5
The heroic crowd willingly submits to the one sided violence, while resolutely refusing to vacate the premises.
Theepoch Times
3.0
His father promotes his gambling and doesnt really resist the profit it brings.
Koimoi
4.4
The film has immaculate production values, and its no surprise that it swept the Academy Awards.
Movie Martyr
2.0
Atten borough concentrates instead on the price of such reasonableness and in the process merely achieves the ironic distinction of making a violent f ..
Archive Spectator
5.0
Epic tale about one mans journey down the transforming path of wisdom and peace.
Net Flix
4.5
The film is triumphantly not a deification, but it is necessarily a simplification, and suffers from some of those disadvantages... But the embattled ..
OutWeek
5.0
On its own terms, the movie is an unqualified triumph, but it is much broader than it is deep.
The Nation
4.5
As a whole, Gandhi is never less than intelligent in dealing with the events and facts with which it chooses to deal, and there is never a boring mome ..
Maclean's Magazine
1.5
Although he may look like the real thing, Ben Kingsley begins to sound like a computer reading fortune cookies.
Los Angeles Free Press
4.5
Given the inherent obstacles in Gandhi, Richard Attenborough has directed an astonishingly successful epic that pulls audiences along on an emotional ..
Cincinnati Enquirer
3.8
Every bit the biopic that Patton was, Gandhi is emotionally engaging but taxing on the viewers stamina. Ben Kingsley is astounding.
Cinema Sight
4.5
Although Gandhi may lack the depth of a more academic approach, it is an old fashioned, inspirational ode to a man who dared to challenge military pow ..
Boston Globe
5.0
The film itself easily serves as a whipping boy for the Oscars: stodgy and respectful in a year full of amazing movies that never had a shot at the Ac ..
Cinema Stache
0.5
This is a film that provokes healthy doubt even as it pays stirring obeisance to sainthood.
Vogue
4.5
Gandhi is exactly what a great motion picture should be. Its uplifting, inspiring, enthralling, provocative, educational and entertaining.
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