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

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
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  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. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    80
    Epic and raw, Black Friday is cut from the same bloody cloth as "Salvador" and "Munich."
  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    75
    Opening with the Mohandas Gandhi epigram "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind," it humanizes the bombers without excusing their actions.
  5. 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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User Score
8.6 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 18 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Sourav
    10
    Indian films are rarely based on books, and they heavily account for their bad screenplay. Anurag Kashyapâ
  2. AjeetM.
    10
    Amazing direction. Hats of the actor behind the face of angry Tiger Memon.
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