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2021
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Positive Reviews
52
Negative reviews
3
Average Rating
3.8
/5
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3.0
Through his eyes, Balrams singular story in all its wild, exuberant improbability roars to life.
EW
3.8
Scene by scene, The White Tiger punctures the fantasy that a rich man could also be a nice man, and although the comedy here is pitch black, it strums ..
Rogerebert
3.0
Like the upwardly mobile character at its core, The White Tiger works best when it moves quickly and doesnt bother to look in the rear view mirror.
Indie Wire
4.5
The White Tiger has a tasty flavor of light meets dark ambivalence thats established in the opening scene, a joyride that freeze frames on disaster.
Variety
4.0
It offers style, energy and bursts of goofy fish out of water humour before landing on a vicious, dark streak of black hearted cynicism.
Time Out
3.8
Ashoks half hearted criticisms of the slave like way that Balram is treated doesnt change the facts of the situation.
3.8
Its ominous message watch out for the person whose back youre stepping on has never been more timely.
4.5
The White Tiger is a sweeping, singularly impressive adaptation of Aravind Adigas punky 2008 Booker Prize winning novel of the same name.
Screen Daily
4.5
If theres simply too much novelistic incident stuffed into the overlong films Dickensian sprawl, the three leads magnetic performances and the surpris ..
The Hollywood Reporter
4.5
In spite of this, The White Tiger bristles with present tense energy.
The New York Times
3.1
His ambition is only outweighed by his certainty that hes better and smarter than those around him.
Paste Magazine
4.0
Its a much broader, more haphazard film than Bong Joon hos Best Picture winning satire.
Telegraph
4.0
The film careens towards a dark, heart pumping finale but maintains a vibrant and visceral texture throughout.
4.5
And a joyride around Delhi streets hammers in that rude awakening.
The Globe And Mail
3.0
Adigas ideas on self actualization remain intact, but the rest of the feature lumbers through subplots and characters, eventually reaching a conclusio ..
Blu Ray
4.4
The White Tiger could be seen as a cynical film, in which our hero is as corrupt, amoral, and ruthless as the people against whom he finally rebels. T ..
Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
Bahranis thought provoking adaptation paints an ugly picture where the only recourse to overturning one injustice is to commit more.
3.0
Bahranis thought provoking adaptation paints an ugly picture where the only recourse to overturning one injustice is to commit more.
4.5
Like Charles Dickens Great Expectations, The White Tiger is a fascinating story about a young man clawing his way out of poverty in dramatic fashion. ..
You Tube
4.0
Yet its so smartly constructed by Bahrani, and so sympathetically played by Gourav, that its hard not to be seduced by what is essentially a dizzy, wo ..
The Times
4.0
Directed with energy and handsomely shot, The White Tiger is a bracing and at times confrontational movie.
Radio Times
4.5
Illustrates the extremes to which the poor are driven to violate the rigid class structure of India, with the implication that our hero and his method ..
The Wrap
4.4
Many memorable movies have been made about the struggles of Indias poorest citizens.
New York Post
4.5
The White Tiger doesnt follow the typical work hard and succeed narrative.
Az Central
4.0
Balrams story would be barely credible in another kind of society, but Adiga and Bahrani have portrayed the machinations that govern this one so vivid ..
Smh
3.8
Its a corrosive satire that uses a Charles Dickens type story to suggest that a revolt by the oppressed is not just likely. Its inevitable.
Star Tribune
3.0
Given a lively, Slumdog Millionaire evoking treatment, the film takes largely successful swipes at the dignity eroding nature of the master servant dy ..
Flim List
2.0
It doesnt take long, though, before we understand none of its absurd at all.
The Film Stage
4.4
The White Tiger keeps an eye on clarity while keeping the pace breathless.
Chicago Tribune
2.0
Balram believes theres only one way out: To find a master who will treat a servant well.
The Play List
3.5
A compelling story is told through risky storytelling and excellent cinematography.
You Tube
4.0
On the rare occasions Bahrani loses focus, Gourav holds the film together. Remarkably, this is his first starring role a fitting note of novelty in a ..
Ft
4.5
It is also such a blindingly romantic notion of absolute morality that it cant possibly be true.
Ar Kansas Online
4.5
My opinion is that its terrific... This is one of the best films of the year.
Ar Kansas Online
4.5
A zestful epic blessed with rapier wit, casually dazzling dialogue, gorgeous cinematography (by Paolo Carnera ) and, at the center of it all, a sensat ..
Wsj
4.0
A sometimes grim but compelling look at a young Indian mans ambition to break out of poverty and ingratiate himself to the rich. A tonal counterpoint ..
The Filmy Ap
3.5
In his first lead role, Adarsh Gourav proves a magnetic screen presence as Balram, dancing a fine line between diligent servant and scheming opportuni ..
Scmp
3.5
A sharp, witty crime drama thats like Dickens with a little bit of Scarface.
Punch Drunk Critics
3.5
And yet, with the narration, hes generally expressing a sense of pride in all hes accomplished.
We Live Entertainment
2.0
Since Balrams father died of TB, hes obligated to send most of his salary home.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
5.0
Everyones miserable in Brothers, and this joyless exercise from stylish director Jrmie Guez has nothing new to say.
Mercury News
4.0
Though the film is quite absorbing when functioning as a kind of a modern day riff on Henri Georges Clouzots 1943 masterpiece Le Corbeau, it cant sust ..
Scots Man
3.0
This makes The White Tiger, based on the 2008 Booker Prize winning novel by Ar av ind Adiga, a fitting adaptation for Iranian American writer director ..
Film Avclub
4.5
This is a beautifully made film with especially noteworthy writing, directing, editing and cinematography that takes Belram from the slums of India to ..
Cbr
3.0
The White Tiger captures the paradoxes of the master servant dynamic, and Gourav captures this duality marvellously. His very face and posture seem st ..
Original Cin
4.0
To him, modern India is a rooster coop where servile masses stupidly wait to be butchered and fed to the rich.
Daily Star
4.5
Balram is, initially, a keen and faithful servant ingratiating even.
Spectator
3.0
The White Tiger is an entertaining ride about earning your place in the world, even if that means climbing over others to get it.
The Only Critic
4.5
As talented director Bahrani demonstrates in his earlier films set in America (99 Homes, Man Push Cart, and Goodbye Solo) this contrast of privilege a ..
Kdhx
4.5
Based on Aravind Adigas best selling and award winning novel of the same name, The White Tiger expertly integrates an engrossing socio political comme ..
Entertainment Ie
4.5
There isnt a false note or a wrong move in Bahranis adaptation of The White Tiger.
Leonard Mal
4.0
He takes a not so subtle jab as well at dreamy redemption tales like Slumdog Millionaire.
Maddwolf
3.5
Its an inversion of the common rags to riches narrative, a story of gumption and scrappy opportunism thats born out of violent necessity and duplicito ..
WhatToWatch
3.1
For a satire, it just doesnt have very sharp teeth, limiting its effectiveness.
Awards Radar
3.8
The White Tiger offers a cutting analysis, but no easy answers, leaving one with an uneasy feeling about not only what it means to make it, but what i ..
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