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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten

    A movie that amply delivers on the epic promise of its title, entertaining, enlightening, and emboldening viewers with its deceptively simple premise and execution. Read full review

  • 100
    New York Daily News | Jami Bernard

    The sunny, funny, toe-tapping Lagaan is the answer to those who ask why they don't make movies like they used to: They do, but in India. Read full review

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    Rippingly good, old-fashioned movie epic. Read full review

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The unlikeliest enthralling movie to be released so far this year. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    An enormously entertaining movie, like nothing we've ever seen before, and yet completely familiar. Read full review

  • 80
    New York Magazine | Peter Rainer

    If you've never experienced a Bollywood musical before, seeing Lagaan will be like watching "Gone With the Wind" without ever having seen a Hollywood movie. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Dave Kehr

    Lagaan may look naïve; it is anything but. This is a movie that knows its business — pleasing a broad, popular audience -- and goes about it with savvy professionalism and genuine flair. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Raises it to the level of an art film with fully drawn characters, a serious underlying theme, and a sophisticated style and point of view. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Derek Elley

    Neither pure masala musical nor pure masala meller, Lagaan is an involving, easily digestible hunk of pure entertainment that could be the trigger for Bollywood's long-awaited crossover to non-ethnic markets. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe |

    An epic film in every respect. Read full review

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