Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator
6.7
2019
1 hr 26 min
Crime
, Documentary
The spectacular rise and scandalous fall of hot-yoga evangelist Bikram Choudhury is chronicled through archival footage and extensive insider interviews.
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- Cast：
- Richard Nixon , Mark Quigley
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It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
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I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
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what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
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