However, Dunki fails to tell a sincere story despite the grave issues it attempts to interact and engage with.

Full Review | Apr 23, 2024

After a decade and a half of not really caring and producing the same garbage, [Karan Johar showed] that he can actually do it if he wants to. [On Dunki, Rajkumar Hirani is] so far gone that there’s no redemption possible with any frame in this movie.

Full Review | Mar 6, 2024

It’s ultimately because Khan posits himself as an actor who keeps rethinking how he approaches his multiple façades on the screen that makes Dunki worth a watch.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Mar 5, 2024

It’s possible that director-writer-editor Rajkumar Hirani doesn’t know the difference between empathy and sympathy [we saw enough evidence of it in Sanju (2018)].

Full Review | Feb 22, 2024

The movie's slick style undermines the gravity of these later scenes; no matter what time period it's in, it has that same digital, cranked-up, streaming-ready sheen where every welcome blast of color winds up looking like artificial sweetener.

Full Review | Feb 16, 2024

Dunki clumsily mixes absurdist comedy with preachy drama in making statements about the dangers of undocumented immigration. Every time a serious life-threatening situation is depicted, the movie then throws in silly jokes for some cheap laughs.

Full Review | Jan 7, 2024

In the end, Dunki undermines its own messaging, sandwiching a series of informative cards about donkey flights between a rushed conclusion and comedic coda.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Dec 29, 2023

Dunki succeeds in creating a complete cinematic experience, laced with broad optimism, as it runs the emotional gamut.

Full Review | Dec 26, 2023

“Dunki” manages to combine wish fulfillment and polemic in a warm-hearted package that knows what it wants.

Full Review | Dec 26, 2023

Dunki marks an uncharacteristic stumble in Rajkumar Hirani’s illustrious career, lacking the director’s usual brilliance and failing to deliver a compelling narrative despite its ensemble cast and technical prowess.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 26, 2023

Dunki is an over-wrought, over-stretched, over-crowded sample of cinematic mediocrity, marked by clunky writing and puerile politics – an inexplicably incompetent film coming from one of the most successful teams in Hindi film history.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.75/5 | Dec 23, 2023

Though Dunki is mawkish and overly sentimental—sometimes to its detriment—it wears such monikers as badges of honour. Throughout each of its 160 minutes, Dunki’s heart remains true...

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 23, 2023

Khan takes on a poignant immigration tale with a whole lot of heart that's bound to strike a chord with audiences.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2023

Dunki, with its laboured storytelling, long humourless stretches of action, and simplistic approach, culminates as an uninspiring collaboration between an actor and a director, both of whom prove to be woefully dated.

Full Review | Dec 22, 2023

The 161-minute movie is frivolous about the reasons for widespread immigration from India and shallow about what awaits the Laltu quartet...

Full Review | Dec 22, 2023

Shah Rukh Khan’s Dunki was entertaining and the concept was good, but lacked depth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2023

Watch the film for its message and for the superb acting display by both Taapsee Pannu, Shah Rukh Khan and the entire ensemble cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 21, 2023

A bigger problem with Dunki is that it's also a Shah Rukh Khan film. On paper, he plays the quintessential Hirani hero...the intrusive SRK hero usurps the humanitarian Hirani hero.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2023

In the 161-minute run-time of the Rajkumar Hirani film, I was hard put to find anything that made me feel. Even Shah Rukh Khan’s Hardy comes off as working too hard for not enough pay-off.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 21, 2023

Shah Rukh Khan and Taapsee Pannu serve a heartwarming tale that's high on emotions.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2023