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Chutney Popcorn
  • Release Date: Sep 22, 2000
Metascore
66 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    80
    Because Chutney Popcorn knows its characters deeply enough to let them determine events, it rises above formula. It is also unusually well acted.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    80
    Its easygoing, disarming air will endear it to its target audience, who will appreciate this movie as much for the lifestyle it depicts as its actual story.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    75
    Her story (Ganatra) -- and the rest of the gifted, multicultural cast that brings it to life -- represents another step in the evolving face of film.
  4. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    75
    The film is alt-schmaltz, and it'll do.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    63
    There's some lumpy writing and uneasy acting, but it's easy to see why this charming, inventive film won prizes at festivals in Berlin, San Francisco and Newport, R.I.
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  6. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    What's amazing is how much first-time director Ganatra and cowriter Susan Carnival get right.
  7. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    60
    The director has a fitfully deployed gift for droll humor, but Chutney Popcorn mostly provides evidence that the ins and outs of the improvised multiparent family can be as prosaic as the nuclear Eisenhower model.
  8. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    50
    Her direction is weak, her dialogue is cliched, and her acting lacks energy and focus.
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