| 90 |
Rolling Stone
Get your titles straight -- this is the good one, and a roaring good time.
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| 90 |
Dallas Observer
M. V. Moorhead
There is some meandering, episodic raggedness to the plotting, but Khan-Din's dialogue has a fine, naturalistic flow, and the young, debuting director O'Donnell, who's neither English nor Pakistani but Irish, skillfully keeps the material from showing too clearly its theatrical origins.
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| 90 |
Film.com
We've seen the clash of cultures and generations before,--- but never quite so humorously. This time, the focus is on the Pakistanis living in England, and it's quite amazingly done, perky and inventive to the core.
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| 90 |
Time
The actor (Puri) and the film make something fine, winning and memorable.
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| 88 |
USA Today
A robust family comedy that saves its wildest moments for a climactic "get-together."
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| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
He (Puri) is one of the most consistently excellent film actors that his country - or the world - has produced. And East is East, a grand cultural hybrid, is a real movie, too - raw, funny and wonderfully mixed up.
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| 88 |
New York Post
East Is East is "The Full Monty" of 2000, a fresh, funny and poignant film filled with sparkling performances.
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| 88 |
San Francisco Examiner
May be the funniest movie about parental and spousal abuse ever made.
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| 88 |
Charlotte Observer
Examines Muslim family's religious warfare.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
An edgy, irreverent, thoroughly winning comedy.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
The proceedings are leavened also with a carefree sense of humor -- including some clever, jokey camera work -- and given depth by a cache of marvelous performances.
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| 80 |
Village Voice
Largely a showcase for Puri, and he rises to the occasion with a performance that bursts from the screen and tears into your heart.
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| 80 |
Variety
A sprightly acted, warm and often extremely funny ensemble comedy.
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| 80 |
Film.com
Stars the cult celebrity Om Puri, widely considered by cinephiles to be one of the best actors in the world.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
If there is a weakness in East Is East, it's that Om Puri's character is a little too serious for the comedy surrounding him.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
O'Donnell has a fine eye for the small details of life and the movie feels rich, warm and real .
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
At its simplest level, East Is East is a broad comedy, but Puri's acting, so honest and heartbreaking, gives the film weight.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bounces between funny and chilling.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
This engaging ensemble comedy that could have been called ''Father Doesn't Know Best.''
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
Above all a man's confrontation with self in middle-age and his need to accept the fact that his children, beyond their mixed ancestry, are after all native-born English citizens.
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| 60 |
Mr. Showbiz
Plays like "The Honeymooners" might have if Ralph Kramden were from Pakistan, but with less laughs and more ignorant spite.
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| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
A movie in which the easy socio-racial paradoxes have been diagrammed with more care than the relationships
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Bryan Poyser
A pleasure to watch for the cast alone and their accomplishments should not be obscured by underwritten characters and overwritten jokey set-pieces.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Mixes broad humor with a surprisingly subtle portrait of a family pulled in a bewildering variety of directions.
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| 50 |
Baltimore Sun
Unwisely bills itself as a comedy.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
Ronnie Scheib
Far less insulting to Pakistanis or Mancunians than it is to its audience.
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