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Black Friday
  • Release Date: Feb 9, 2007
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8.8 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 17
  3. Negative: 2 out of 17

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  1. AjeetM.
    Feb 19, 2007
    10
    Amazing direction. Hats of the actor behind the face of angry Tiger Memon.
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  2. Sourav
    Dec 31, 2010
    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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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
  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.
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  2. 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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  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."
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