
Variety
A straightforward, ingratiating drama that builds toward a satisfyingly expansive close.
Full reviewSuraj Sharma (Life of Pi) and Tony Revolori (The Grand Budapest Hotel) lead this 1980s-set drama from India. Audience Award winner at Sundance 2015.
A small village in northern India is invigorated when one of their own travels to America (or, "Umrika") and details his adventures through letters home, sparking community debate and inspiring hope. But when the letters mysteriously stop coming, his younger brother Rama (Sharma) sets out on a journey to find him.
A straightforward, ingratiating drama that builds toward a satisfyingly expansive close.
Full reviewExcellent production design and fine performances keep us engaged and involved in the outcomes, and topical issues of people smuggling adds immediacy to the story.
Full reviewUmrika achieves remarkable power as a story by concentrating its view of America through the eyes of people who have never been there.
Full reviewThe themes are clearer than some of the plot details in this atmospheric story from India.
Full reviewThe strength in Nair's bittersweet script comes not from large monologues, but rather the subtle, almost throwaway lines that build up to a surprising yet fitting end that even allows its characters to look out over a sunset without it feeling trite.
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