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… India’s first registered association of film critics — a geographically diverse cross-section of professionals — who have come together to streamline the ethical and quality standards for film criticism in the country.
With India’s most credible critics – representing print, radio, broadcast, and the web – at its helm, the Guild is dedicated to maintaining the highest level of integrity amongst its members and evaluating works of cinema that stand apart in their story telling.
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Critics Choice Awards
Since 2018, the Film Critics Guild and Motion Content Group in collaboration with Vistas Media Capital have showcased, recognised and rewarded the best talent coming out from different film industries, all across India. Our aim have championed short films, web series and feature films all on the same platform across all Indian languages, through an unbiased, credible, transparent process.
Outreach Programmes
Film Critics Guild aims to carry out meaningful conversations around film criticism across the country, in different cities as a part of our robust year-round programme. We collaborate with different organizations, film festivals and educational institutions to carry out film screenings, workshops and panel discussions on the art of film criticism.
Member Reviews
Film Critics Guild currently has 57 members spread across 13 different cities, who regularly review the films released every week, across all Indian languages. Our mandate is to further the cause of credible and ethical film criticism in the country. This site collates reviews by members which you can browse starting here, or look for a specific film using our alphabetic index of films.
Guild News
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Best of Critics' Choice Awards at the 17th International Guwahati Film Festival
The Film Critics Guild collaborated with the Gauhati Cinema Club for the 17th International Guwahati Film Festival to showcase the Best of the Critics’ Choice Awards. The festival took place from 11—16th December 2024, where five feature films were screened, which included titles like Kadaisi Vivasayi by M. Manikandan, Three of Us by Avinash Arun Dhaware, Eeb Allay Ooo! by Prateek Vats, Koozhangal by P. Vinothraj, and Goldfish by Pushan Kripalani.
FCG Gender Sensitivity Award at Dharamshala Int'l Film Festival 2024
The Film Critics Guild partnered with the Dharamshala International Film Festival (7-10 December 2024) to present the FCG Gender Sensitivity Award to the documentary film Marching in the Dark by Kinshuk Surjan. The jury included film critics Ishita Sengupta (OTT Play), Kirubhakar Purushothaman (News18), and Sukanya Verma (Rediff.com). At the closing ceremony of the festival, the award was presented to the filmmaker by film critic Rohan Naahar (The Indian Express).
Best of Critics Choice Awards Screened at Lakhisarai Children's Film Festival 2024
The first-ever Lakhisarai Children’s Film Festival was held in Lakhisarai, Bihar, where a short film package was screened under the ‘Best of Critics’ Choice Awards,’ in collaboration with the Film Critics Guild. Suman Sen’s The Silent Echo and Karishma Dev Dubey’s Bittu were featured in this package. Guild member and senior critic Deepak Dua was present at the event.
Film Critics Guild Gender Sensitivity Award at MAMI 2024
The Film Critics Guild collaborated with the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2024 and awarded the FCG Gender Sensitivity Award to the feature film Girls Will Be Girls by Shuchi Talati. The jury consisted of film critics Monika Rawal, Rohit Khilnani (Bollywood Hungama), and Sanyukta Thakare (Mashable). Click here to read more
Latest Member Reviews
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starting here
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for reviews of a specific film
Video Reviews
Sky Force
Anupama Chopra
The Hollywood Reporter India
A fictional account of the Indian Air Force's airstrike on the Sargodha airbase during the 1965 Indo-Pak War.
All 5 reviews of Sky Force here
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Sucharita Tyagi
Independent Film Critic
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig is an absolute soul-shattering work of cinema because of just how urgent, relatable, and familiar its conflicts are.
Print/Online Reviews
Kudumbasthan
Avinash Ramachandran
Indian Express
Manikandan anchors this funny and familiar tale that needed a firmer grasp on things
Sweet Dreams
Rahul Desai
The Hollywood Reporter India
A Promising Love Story Ruined By Instagram Film-making
A Real Pain
Udita Jhunjhunwala
Mint, Scroll.in
Jesse Eisenberg directs a moving road trip film
All 4 reviews of A Real Pain here
Sky Force
Uday Bhatia
Mint Lounge
Undercooked fighter pilot film takes a curious turn
All 5 reviews of Sky Force here
Sky Force
Priyanka Roy
The Telegraph
Sky Force is formulaic but well made and has Akshay Kumar in good form.
All 5 reviews of Sky Force here
Severance S02
Sonal Pandya
Times Now, Zoom
Superb Office Sci-Fi Thriller Continues To Tap Into Stranger, Revealing Mysteries Of Human Psyche
Dominic and the Ladies' Purse
S. R. Praveen
The Hindu
Needless flab turns Gautham Menon-Mammootty film into average fare
All 3 reviews of Dominic and the Ladies' Purse here
Dominic and the Ladies' Purse
Sudhir Srinivasan
The New Indian Express
A gray detective gets his start in this colourful origins film
All 3 reviews of Dominic and the Ladies' Purse here
Dominic and the Ladies' Purse
Vishal Menon
The Hollywood Reporter India
An Epic Mammootty Character, A Not-So-Epic Investigation
All 3 reviews of Dominic and the Ladies' Purse here
A Real Pain
Tatsam Mukherjee
The Wire
Jesse Eisenberg’s Film Revises the Way We See the Failure in the Family
All 4 reviews of A Real Pain here
Critics Choice Awards 2024
The Critics' Choice Film Awards is a platform to celebrate diversity and flair in Indian films. It is a space to reward and recognise creativity, ingenuity and quality.
As a pan-India award, the Critics' Choice Film Awards represents the diverse range of filmmaking in the country. It honours talent and displays the rich culture of films across languages, styles and themes. The Critics' Choice Film Awards were instituted in 2018 and have continued every year since.
In our first edition, the awards recognized short films, in the second we enhanced the awards to include the exciting and burgeoning space of web series and episodic content. This year we aim to continue unearthing and honoring talent from this flourishing space. With a transparent process to identify worthy winners, these awards aim to reward the immense creativity of this industry.
View earlier years from here
Special Awards 2024
Feature Films 2024
Web Series 2024
Short Films 2024
