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Avg. Critic Score: 74 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 Iffy for 17+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Get your titles straight -- this is the good one, and a roaring good time. Read full review

  • 88
    USA Today | Staff [Not Credited]

    A robust family comedy that saves its wildest moments for a climactic "get-together." Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Derek Elley

    A sprightly acted, warm and often extremely funny ensemble comedy. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    An edgy, irreverent, thoroughly winning comedy. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    This engaging ensemble comedy that could have been called ''Father Doesn't Know Best.'' Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    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. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    At its simplest level, East Is East is a broad comedy, but Puri's acting, so honest and heartbreaking, gives the film weight. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    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. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    A movie in which the easy socio-racial paradoxes have been diagrammed with more care than the relationships Read full review

  • 50
    Austin Chronicle |

    A pleasure to watch for the cast alone and their accomplishments should not be obscured by underwritten characters and overwritten jokey set-pieces. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 17+ Pakistan mixes with UK in cultural identity drama.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie has very strong language, bathroom scenes, explicit sexual references, including depiction of male and female genitals, sexual situations, and severe wife and child abuse.
  • Families can talk about the cultural heritages that are important to them and how they balance that with the pressure to assimilate. They should also talk about how husbands and wives from different backgrounds create a home that respects both of them, and how people sometimes live with compromises that may seem intolerable to others.
What to watch for
  • violence false4 Violence: Domestic abuse (wife and children).
  • sex false5 Sex: Sexual references and situations, explicit depictions of genitals, bathroom scenes.
  • language false4 Language: Very strong language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking and a lot of smoking.
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