Lion

Dev Patel stars in story of Indian boy raised by Aussie couple and seeks out his birth parents – with a little help from Google Earth.

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Nicole Kidman's Oscar contender will rip you to pieces.

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Saroo is played dazzlingly by Dev Patel, who gives his richest performance since Mira Nair’s “The Namesake.”

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Lion is one true story but two very different movies.

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Oscar contender ‘Lion’ has the heart of one.

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Lion doesn’t quite make its true story roar.

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This is no doubt a fascinating story to tell in Lion, but the potential is never met. Despite its promise, the drama ends up feeling like one big Google Earth advertisement with no sense of culture whatsoever. If anything, pending stronger material, it does prove the director has a bright future ahead of him.

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While Lion isn’t the kind of drama that demands risky storytelling, it is one that has within it a whole world of emotional topography that is disappointingly scrolled over instead of mapped out.

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Lion‘s faults of structure and pacing might limit its power, but in stretches it still roars.

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By the time the film has really begun, it already seems half over.

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The true story of a man using Google Earth to track down his childhood home is often slight, but accomplished direction and themes of racial identity keep it on track.

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The first part of “Lion,” Garth Davis’s unabashedly tear-jerking movie about a remarkable real-world incident, has some of the scary, wondrous feeling of a fairy tale.

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Saroo Brierley's memoir A Long Way Home examines, in its uncertain prose, one of the signal concerns of our age: How do those of us who have grown up in relative comfort square our good luck with the lot of the rest of the world?

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Lion may be a little too Oscar-bait-y, but it's not without loud emotional roars.

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As is proved by documentary footage at the end, Garth Davis’s film is based on a true story; though wrenching, there is barely enough of it to fill the dramatic space, and the second half is a slow and muted affair after the Dickensian punch of the first.

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Dev Patel stars as an Indian orphan who uses Google Earth to find his way back home in Garth Davis' directorial debut.

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Even Nicole Kidman’s lovely performance can’t obscure this film’s odd ideas about well-meaning white parents and their obliviousness to their adoptive children’s background.

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