The White Tiger

Any hope or salvation The White Tiger offers is laced with a drop of arsenic, and there are certainly no Bollywood dance numbers to lift your spirits.

Through [a] climactic nod to Naipaul's merciless depiction of underdeveloped India, no matter how many fortunate individuals might escape it, Bahrani's The White Tiger subverts the standard-issue poverty porno...

The White Tiger is a kinetic excursion into darkness with Balram as our charismatic guide.

Directed by Iranian-American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani, the film is a breeze despite some tired cliches. It ends up as an insider's take on corruption and caste and class-divides in India...

Balram's tale is rich and ruthless enough for both approaches, and for any country built on a premise of one class eating another.

A film about a culture of servitude and inequality in modern India...really remarkable and very worth watching.

A scathing, cynical crime saga set in contemporary India

A ferocious, compelling and entertaining film with something sharp and accurate to say, and an engaging way of conveying its central perspective.

This slick looking Netflix production gives [Bahrani] his biggest canvas yet resting on the shoulders of Gourav's impressively wound performance.

You could draw a direct through-line from old Hollywood gangster movies to this one.