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Lion

2016

Garth Davis

Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara ...

7.3

21,851

Drama Based on the true story of five-year-old Indian boy Saroo, who gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

	Author	Review
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"A tearjerker than earns the tears (...) 'Lion' remains a cut above the kind of sturdy middlebrow drama its premise (...) Patel delivers his most intricate performance since 'Slumdog Millionaire'"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A tremendously moving performance from Dev Patel is the resilient soul of 'Lion' (...) a sober and yet profoundly stirring contemplation of family, roots and identity"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Dev Patel doesn't appear until nearly an hour into 'Lion' – but when he does his strong, soulful, Oscar-buzzed performance cuts deep (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"If you have ever been a child, raised a child, lost a child or met a child - or a mother - this movie will wreck you"	POS
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"The finale is manipulative in every way (...) But Lion's well-plotted narrative and thoughtful characters suck you in so much that the journey there is totally worth it (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	David Wiegand SFGATE	"Because of Patel's electrifying and deeply nuanced performance, Lion ultimately delivers the emotional punch it has promised all along"	POS

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