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27 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Film ThreatFilm ThreatMogul Mowgli elegantly deals with essential issues while remaining entertaining.
- 80EmpireEmpireCulturally rich and emotionally raw, Mogul Mowgli is a brilliant showcase for Riz Ahmed’s bevy of talents, and speaks visceral truth to the British-South Asian experience so rarely explored on screen.
- 80Time OutStephen A. RussellTime OutStephen A. RussellAhmed is at his best in Zed’s darkest hour, as he struggles to hold it together in a hospital cubicle. It’s blistering stuff.
- 70VarietyGuy LodgeVarietyGuy LodgeOutside of Ahmed’s seething, spitting, can’t-look-away performance, Mogul Mowgli is a sparsely scripted but scratchily atmospheric culture-clash drama that runs on some quite traditional father-son melodramatics. But considering the film outside the performance would be a mistake.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt is a deeply personal drama about culture, family, community and what it means to represent – though it can also be self-indulgent and even a bit self-involved, though this is arguably a function of the story.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonHandsome and intense, Ahmed is a reliably magnetic screen presence, while his punchy real-life chops as a rapper and lyricist also serve him well here. But his screenwriting skills are less assured, and Mogul Mowgli is strangely low on dramatic or emotional bite given its high-stakes storyline. Baggy editing, underexplained context and flat dialogue add to this muted effect.
- 60CineVueMatthew AndersonCineVueMatthew AndersonA film that is chock full of insight, piercing ideas and visual metaphors that unfortunately are never fully realised.