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Black Friday
  • Release Date: Feb 9, 2007
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Metascore
76 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critics What's this?

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8.8 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 17 Ratings

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  • Summary: Based on a book by Hussain Zaidi, Black Friday is the story of the 1993 bomb blasts that killed 257 people in Mumbai.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    100
    Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday is a superb and devastating piece of cinema that with justification can be compared favorably to Gillo Pontocorvo's classic "The Battle of Algiers" in its dispassionate yet sweeping journalistic inquiry into cataclysmic social and political events.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: David Chute
    80
    The movie would be all crisp surfaces without the internal combustion of Menon, as a man who bears down on familiar procedures in order to avoid being overwhelmed by his emotions.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Derek Elley
    60
    Despite its large cast and complex criss-crossing from past to present, the movie rarely catches fire as an involving human drama.

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. AjeetM.
    10
    Amazing direction. Hats of the actor behind the face of angry Tiger Memon.
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  2. Sourav
    10
    Indian films are rarely based on books, and they heavily account for their bad screenplay. Anurag Kashyap’s Black Friday tries to portray everything the way it actually happened in Mumbai blasts, or at least as the book says it happened, and succeeds! Unlike most other films of this genre, this film does not hype terrorism, or romanticize the darkness of Bombay, or the coldness of its police- but portrays exactly what happened in reality. The usage of actual news footage of the events add realism to the tale. It takes courage to take names of some of the biggest name in underworld and Indian politics as bluntly, and the filmmaker shows that courage. The story doesn’t point finger on any particular person, group or community as the culprit for what is still Indian crime history’s biggest tragedy. It gives a strong message, right on face- the terror, the attacks, the explosions, the riots inhales not any particular community but the whole humanity.… Expand
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