Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday is a superb and devastating piece of cinema that with justification can be compared favorably to Gillo Pontocorvo's classic "The Battle of Algiers" in its dispassionate yet sweeping journalistic inquiry into cataclysmic social and political events.
Epic and raw, Black Friday is cut from the same bloody cloth as "Salvador" and "Munich."
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L.A. WeeklyDavid Chute
L.A. WeeklyDavid Chute
The movie would be all crisp surfaces without the internal combustion of Menon, as a man who bears down on familiar procedures in order to avoid being overwhelmed by his emotions.