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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 12 Aug 2010

A few fresh twists on the usual saga of an outlaw family violently imploding…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for Associated Press (1,685) on 11 Aug 2010

Watching this small-time Melbourne crime family unravel under the weight of their overconfidence is riveting, as Australian writer-director…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 11 Aug 2010

Faultlessly acted by top Australian talent, including Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn and Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom marries heightened emotionality…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 11 Aug 2010

A phenomenal debut feature with a terrific title, David Michôd's Animal Kingdom is both a study in Darwinian survival-in this case survival…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 11 Aug 2010

It's the script and the tone of the piece where my problems lie…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 11 Aug 2010

Another debut film whose young director has set an imposing high-water mark for the rest of his filmmaking career…

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By Jason Anderson (395) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 11 Aug 2010

The suggestion that the authorities may comprise a clan that's as ruthless and amoral as the Browns also adds a pleasingly cynical edge that's…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 10 Aug 2010

Don't be fooled: In this unpeaceable kingdom, the den mama is also ready to eat her young…

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By Sara Vilkomerson (27) for New York Observer (1,400) on 10 Aug 2010

Among the most gripping, well-paced, acted and directed, and generally thrilling of anything that I've seen (yet) this year…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 10 Aug 2010

The strength of Animal Kingdom is its slow-building fatalism; the criminals' luck runs out, but then finds depressing extension via an out-of-left-field…

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By Andrea Chase (1,182) for Killer Movie Reviews (1,182) on 10 Aug 2010

Michod uses intuitive direction and spare dialogue, allowing the underlying tensions to take center stage, and the uniformly strong performances…

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By Walter Chaw (1,360) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 10 Aug 2010

Best indicated by its unwavering reserve--a reluctance, almost--to say too much when slow, fluid tracking motions and static, medium-distance…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 10 Aug 2010

Charles Darwin would easily recognize the struggle for survival in David Michod's gritty, gripping Animal Kingdom, a tough crime treat from Australia…

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By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Aug 2010

Michôd wants a Greek epic but doesn't have the material…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 09 Aug 2010

Offers the quality storytelling of those '70s crime classics but with an edge that makes it feels far more contemporary than other films influenced…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 08 Aug 2010

Gripping Australian crime drama that charts the slow unraveling of a family bound together by violence through the eyes of a teenage nephew…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 01 Aug 2010

Early on, writer-director David Michôd serves up Trainspotting-like tricks and narration that is beguiling, if rarely apropos…

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By Matthew Pejkovic (770) for Matt's Movie Reviews (913) on 11 Jul 2010

As the film begins and Anthony Portos' mournful score plays over the opening credits, it's clear that Animal Kingdom is not interested in following…

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By Brandon Judell (340) for CultureCatch (133) on 19 Jun 2010

Another one of those tiny, volcanic Australian dramas (e.g…

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By Marc Fennell (82) for Triple J (121) on 15 Jun 2010

Smart, intense, tragic, blackly funny, atmospheric and freaking awesome…

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