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By Tom D (1,091) on 11 Feb 2013

A demanding but original and timeless story steeped in the world-view of its makers. Excellent…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 06 Aug 2012

An experience so engrossing it is like being buried in a new environment…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Jun 2012

Exciting not as ethnography but as storytelling, as drama, and as filmmaking…

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By Nik M (576) on 18 Jun 2012

At three hours and with very little story or character development, there is plenty of room for editing, and a much shorter cut surely would…

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By Ceda X (11) on 07 May 2012

A wonderful, epic sweep of a movie that does justice to a story nearly 1,000 years old…

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By Maria H (159) on 04 Apr 2012

Total masterpiece. It's like a Shakespeare-play set in the Arctic…

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By Sugarbush (1) on 01 Apr 2012

This is a must see. Aboriginal cultures across Canada have great stories worthy of film…

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By Raphael G (192) on 23 Jul 2011

A universal story of evil taking place in an obscure culture that has always fascinated me…

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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 06 Jul 2011

Its refusal to draw solid lines between good and evil characters is more sophisticated than the psychology of most current commercial pictures…

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By Evan K (781) on 25 Mar 2011

The story was a bit confusing at the start; but by 10-15% of the way in you have figured it out and by the 1/4 mark everything makes sense…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 12 Feb 2011

It's a difficult film to follow and at 172 minutes is maybe a half-hour too long. But simply as a sensory experience The Fast Runner is amazing…

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By Marnie Z (226) on 20 Jan 2011

This is defently one of my favourite Movies!!! Such a Breathtaking Cinematography…

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By Ryancarroll88 (145) on 26 Aug 2010

Being the first movie to ever be filmed in the Inuit language, Inuktitut, 'Atanarjuat' is as much a cultural edification as it is a sprawling…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 05 Aug 2010

A landmark movie that becomes a priceless entryway into a distant land and its people, few of whom will ever seem as foreign and far away again…

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By Blackity B (125) on 16 Apr 2010

Brilliantly filmed and told, this Inuit language film about the aboriginal people of North Canada is mythic drama of good vs. evil spirits…

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By Doug F (150) on 15 Apr 2010

I think I would benefit from another viewing of the first Inuit made film, Atanarjuat, but it's difficult to find another 3 hours when I'd…

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By Ryan C (2,517) on 11 Apr 2010

Being the first movie to ever be filmed in the Inuit language, Inuktitut, 'Atanarjuat' is as much a cultural edification as it is a sprawling…

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By Sara W (330) on 10 Feb 2010

Purist, rude, etnological, documental, simple, beautiful, human…

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By Bill Gallo (195) for New Times (L.A.) (313) on 07 Feb 2010

The perfect antidote to the summer heat in Austin, more refreshing even than a dip in our chilly holy waters of Barton Springs…

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By Patrick "Flick" Harrison (2) for Film Threat (5,156) on 25 Nov 2009

This is quite possibly the best Canadian film of all time…

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