Raavanan

The Tamil version is better directed, better acted, better edited, with music that's organically welded. The lines are sharper, the supporting cast and the main leads connected.

Raavan is ravishingly good.

While it's hard to see why Villain was so feted by the Japanese academy, the moody, social-realist vibe makes this worth a look.

A cop and self-styled Robin Hood face off in a wild and brawny contest in Mani Ratnam's bullets-and-dance spectacle Raavan.

Pan-Indian saga with epic sweep, intense emotion and gorgeous images.

Artful but not arty, Mr. Ratnam, whose films include Dil Se and Guru, delivers the goods.

RAAVANANs incredible visual quality overwhelms everything. So much so that you can almost overlook all its detriments. But only almost.

Ratnam's latest effort seems soulless and adrift under a canopy of dense foliage.

Very satisfying entertainment for the eyes, ears and heart - mythic romance and action adventure to a throbbing beat.

A.R. Rahman's omni-present score is as overbearing as most other aspects of this overwrought melodrama.