Bedatri D. Choudhury

Bedatri D. Choudhury Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Sep 9, 2026 It's such a beautiful, lush film. Go to Full Review Filipiñana (2026) 90% - -

Bedatri D. Choudhury Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Aug 18, 2026 Is it a great film? I don't think so. Is it a film that you'll have a lot of fun watching? Yes, absolutely. Go to Full Review The End of Oak Street (2026) 86% - -

Bedatri D. Choudhury Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Apr 7, 2026 This film is very effective in putting forth the discourse. Go to Full Review The Drama (2026) 76% - -

Bedatri D. Choudhury Sight & Sound Nov 5, 2025 It’s a broad sweep of ideas, but when you set out to make a film on the police, you must address systemic corruption. Suri largely succeeds. Go to Full Review Santosh (2024) 100% - -

Bedatri D. Choudhury Sight & Sound Oct 10, 2025 The film does an exceptional job of provoking empathy and a shared sense of dejection, but at times leaves the viewer wishing it would trade its abstraction for a fuller picture of Nuala. Go to Full Review A Want in Her (2024) 92% - -

Bedatri D. Choudhury Reverse Shot Mar 11, 2025 On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a complex film whose layers are so dense that they’d be impenetrable if not for Nyoni’s knack for dark humor, fantastic imagery, and her seething rage at a patriarchy that has co-opted women to be its foot soldiers. Go to Full Review On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) 100% - -

Bedatri D. Choudhury Vague Visages Sep 26, 2023 There's seething, justified anger that underscores the plot of Bhoga Khirikee; an anger that could be used to create extremely radical female characters who pull plot forward instead of becoming cardboard stand-ins for the filmmaker’s radical politics. Go to Full Review Bhoga Khirikee (2018) - - - -

Bedatri D. Choudhury Vague Visages Aug 7, 2023 Gupta, with her immense treasure of emotions and movements, brings to life the dichotomies of extreme pain and extreme joy, and makes it all seem so relatable that it’s difficult to hold back tears. Go to Full Review The Last Color (2020) 33% - -

Bedatri D. Choudhury Bust Magazine Jul 14, 2023 Though Montañez's claims have since been contested, the controversy does not diminish the joy of Longoria's film. It's a story of an immigrant's triumph in a society where the odds are always systemically stacked against him. Go to Full Review Flamin' Hot (2023) 67% 88%

Bedatri D. Choudhury Reverse Shot Mar 23, 2023 The characters all seem to live in the glow of this ephemeral light, and they continue chasing it when it gets too dark. Go to Full Review Love Life (2022) 87% 100%

Bedatri D. Choudhury Hyperallergic Jun 28, 2022 This documentary could have been a collective cleansing experience, but instead it is, as she asserts from the outset, only Huntt’s story. Go to Full Review Beba (2021) 83% 57%

Bedatri D. Choudhury Reverse Shot Mar 24, 2022 While the absence of a clear demarcation between what is real and what isn’t raises some documentary ethics questions of authenticity and portraying “reality,” the larger narrative remains true to its goal of telling the story of a 150-mile journey. Go to Full Review Day After... (2021) - - - -

Bedatri D. Choudhury Hyperallergic Oct 18, 2021 The latest in a string of offbeat films about the nature of performance and creativity. Go to Full Review Isabella (2020) 86% - -

Bedatri D. Choudhury Firstpost Apr 30, 2021 Night of the Kings is a film made of fleeting moments of beauty packed within a world defined by violence and surrounded by death. Go to Full Review Night of the Kings (2020) 96% 64%

Bedatri D. Choudhury Hyperallergic Nov 17, 2020 Reconstructs Keller from an icon of vague, feel-good platitudes to the fiercely political woman she truly was. Go to Full Review Her Socialist Smile (2020) 92% - -

Bedatri D. Choudhury Hyperallergic Nov 16, 2020 Demonstrates how exclusionary our social myths around motherhood and giving birth are. Go to Full Review Belly of the Beast (2020) 100% 83%

Bedatri D. Choudhury Reverse Shot Oct 2, 2020 MLK/FBI doesn't leave the audience with answers but compels them to ask harder questions. Go to Full Review MLK/FBI (2020) 98% 67%

Bedatri D. Choudhury Screen Slate Sep 18, 2020 Cone is a master of restraint as his storytelling always manages to portray extremely emotional moments without falling onto the crutches of overt melodrama... Go to Full Review The Wise Kids (2011) 100% 67%

Bedatri D. Choudhury Screen Slate Sep 18, 2020 As waves crash against the Malecón esplanade, Epicentro reminds us of the myths that we build our lives upon; some of us believe in the myth of building walls and some of us cry at the death of our mythical leaders. Go to Full Review Epicentro (2020) 89% - -

Bedatri D. Choudhury Hyperallergic Jun 11, 2020 Be Water brings together a wide range of people to build a memorial to a man whose legacy is not limited to his tragically short screen career. Go to Full Review Be Water (2020) 93% 100%