Amu
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  • Summary: Amu is the story of Kaju, a twenty-one-year-old Indian American woman who returns to India to visit her family. The film takes a dark turn as Kaju stumbles against secrets and lies from her past. A horrifying genocide that took place twenty years ago turns out to hold the key to her mysterious origins. (Emerging Pictures)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    80
    The movie takes on the quality of a first-rate detective story.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    70
    This debut feature from writer-director Shonali Bose has a powerful finale, in which the filmmaker uses imaginative camera angles and a vibrant sound design to re-create the turmoil and terror of the riots.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Eddie Cockrell
    60
    Admirably idealistic but dramatically awkward.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    38
    Fails to grab the imagination as it unfolds in familiar TV-movie fashion.

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  1. SashaF.
    10
    It was a very touching film, and rather complex in its depiction of the genocide. It doesn't try and explain everything to you, and assumes you are intelligent enough to get it. I guess folks from the New York Post aren't though. Well, too bad for them, if they want everything handed on a platter to them .… Expand

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