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Basmati Blues

2017

Dan Baron

Brie Larson, Donald Sutherland, Scott Bakula, Tyne Daly ...

4.0

28

Comedy. Musical. Romance A brilliant scientist is plucked out of the company lab and sent to India to sell the genetically modified rice she created - which she doesn't realize will destroy the farmers she thinks she's helping.

	Author	Review
United States	Jesse Hassenger AV Club	"'Basmati Blues' rides the line between charming and embarrassing (...) The movie has nothing interesting to say about culture clashes or race relations"	NEG
United States	Derek Smith Slant	"'Basmati Blues's central love story never feels remotely organic (...) Clunky storytelling (…) Rating: ½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] is the sort of unmitigated disaster that the actress [Larson] would no doubt have preferred to stay under wraps"	NEG
United States	Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice	"The most fascinating thing about 'Basmati Blues' is its own existence (...) Watching it is something like watching a play’s first full dress rehearsal"	NEG
United States	Michael Rechtshaffen Los Angeles Times	"[It] fails to find a happy medium between cute-and-clever and simply cloying (...) There's little about director Danny Baron's feature debut that feels convincingly organic"	NEG

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