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The Long Take Podcast is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Akhil Arora.

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Kalamkaval (2025) Akhil Arora The investigative thriller, in which Mammootty plays a serial killer, is a dull, dour, and deeply frustrating film.
Posted Jan 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Haq (2025) Akhil Arora Haq, the new propaganda movie starring Yami Gautam Dhar and Emraan Hashmi, is even more insidious than Dhurandhar.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders (2025) Akhil Arora Is Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders more than just a way for director Honey Trehan to pay the rent, or is it actually worthwhile?
Posted Dec 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Akhil Arora Avatar: Fire and Ash is the weakest instalment of James Cameron’s trilogy.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Dhurandhar (2025) Akhil Arora Dhurandhar is vile propaganda whose influence will spread beyond even its target audience of unemployed youth and WhatsApp uncles.
Posted Dec 21, 2025  Edit critic review
The Girlfriend (2025) Akhil Arora The Girlfriend seems like a direct response to the widespread misogyny of Indian cinema, but it feels disingenuous because it stars someone who has defended that very misogyny.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari (2025) Akhil Arora Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari is more like a sitcom written by a Dharma [Productions] committee than a proper movie.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Nishaanchi 2 (2025) Akhil Arora Nishaanchi: Part 2 features arguably the best climax that Anurag Kashyap has ever orchestrated.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Nishaanchi (2025) Akhil Arora Anurag Kashyap’s Nishaanchi: Part 1 is a welcome return to form, and the long-awaited spiritual successor to Gangs of Wasseypur that his fans have been waiting for.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Lokah - Chapter 1: Chandra (2025) Akhil Arora Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra is perhaps the most overrated Indian movie of the year.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Param Sundari (2025) Akhil Arora Param Sundari, the new film starring Janhvi Kapoor and Sidharth Malhotra, seems to make things up as it goes along.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Homebound (2025) Akhil Arora Homebound, Neeraj Ghaywan’s second feature film in a decade, is well worth the wait.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
All We Imagine as Light (2024) Akhil Arora [T]he film’s bittersweet exploration of urban loneliness and the migrant experience, its depiction of Mumbai, and [Payal] Kapadia’s command over tone.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Mrs. (2023) Akhil Arora Is Mrs., the Hindi-language remake of the acclaimed Malayalam film The Great Indian Kitchen, a better exploration of the same ideas?
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Superboys of Malegaon (2024) Akhil Arora In Superboys of Malegaon, director Reema Kagti unites three talented male actors in an inspiring story about ambition and friendship. But was she the ideal person for the job?
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Electric State (2025) Akhil Arora The United Nations should probably intervene and impose sanctions on streamers for wasting over $300 million on movies like The Electric State.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Jewel Thief - The Heist Begins (2025) Akhil Arora [W]onder why an actor of Jaideep Ahlawat’s talent would put himself through this, and eventually get around to poking holes in the film’s plot and questioning the intelligence of its characters.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Diplomat (2025) Akhil Arora No diplomacy takes place in the new John Abraham film The Diplomat.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Akhil Arora Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning may or may not be Tom Cruise’s final time playing IMF agent Ethan Hunt, but the movie is certainly not worthy of taking on sendoff responsibilities.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Stolen (2023) Akhil Arora After producing two movies about a hyper-masculine cop who literally lynches people, Nikkhil Advani has attached himself as an executive producer to Stolen, the new survival thriller on Prime Video.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Alappuzha Gymkhana (2025) Akhil Arora The Malayalam-language sports comedy film Alappuzha Gymkhana has no stakes, no villain, and no classic structure. This could either have been a bold decision or an act of self-sabotage. It’s somewhere in the middle.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Sarzameen (2025) Akhil Arora Is Dharma trying to actively sabotage Ibrahim Ali Khan’s career? After the unwatchable Nadaaniyan, the studio has released the equally inept Sarzameen, a feature-length debut for director Kayoze Irani.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Sitaare Zameen Par (2025) Akhil Arora Sitaare Zameen Par—marketed as the spiritual sequel to Aamir Khan’s 2007 hit Taare Zameen Par—is a shoddily made, preachy, borderline insensitive film with a noble mission.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Tehran (2025) Akhil Arora Tehran—the new John Abraham political action thriller—literally cannot identify the country of Georgia on the map.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Maareesan (2025) Akhil Arora [M]ainly, we talk about the film’s shady morality, which seems to champion extrajudicial killings if the cause is perceived as noble enough.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Songs of Paradise (2025) Akhil Arora Songs of Paradise is like a 1950s movie that has time-traveled to the present day.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Inspector Zende (2025) Akhil Arora Inspector Zende, the new spoof movie starring Manoj Bajpayee and Jim Sarbh, succeeds as a concept but fails in execution.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Dunki (2023) Akhil Arora After a decade and a half of not really caring and producing the same garbage, [Karan Johar showed] that he can actually do it if he wants to. [On Dunki, Rajkumar Hirani is] so far gone that there’s no redemption possible with any frame in this movie.
Posted Mar 06, 2024  Edit critic review
All India Rank (2023) Akhil Arora I feel like whenever this movie could not probe deeper beyond, in terms of a scene, it tended to jump into like a “Let the background music or song tell you about the emotions while the characters [will] just mingle and go about their day.”
Posted Mar 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Dune: Part Two (2024) Akhil Arora It feels more confident [as] he’s benefiting from the fact that he’s done the hard work. He’s set up the lore and the backstory in the first movie. The exposition of like “Oh, look at how this spaceship works. [...] This is why Arrakis is important.”
Posted Mar 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire (2023) Akhil Arora Everyone thinks they are delivering the best work of their career but they are actually delivering the worst … It's so lazy [in every department.]
Posted Jan 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Tiger 3 (2023) Akhil Arora Emraan Hashmi delivers the best performance of the movie … [but Tiger 3] suffers from Salman Khan being in it [as he] is incapable of doing certain things or has no desire.
Posted Jan 12, 2024  Edit critic review
12th Fail (2023) Akhil Arora [The movie loves romanticising struggle and is] willing to glorify everything and be like keep struggling — his motto is 'repeat, repeat.' What do you mean [by] repeat? For what objective? To what end?
Posted Jan 04, 2024  Edit critic review
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