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By Monica Castillo (380) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 15 Nov 2019

In watching so many films in a given week, month, or year, it’s rare to find one that sustains its thrills throughout its runtime, matches…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 14 Nov 2019

Diop films the characters and the city with a tactile intimacy and a teeming energy that are heightened by the soundtrack’s polyphony of…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 14 Nov 2019

It testifies to the variety and vitality of politically alert genre filmmaking…

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By Lawrence Garcia (34) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Nov 2019

For Diop as much as for her lead character, Atlantics resounds with the promise of great things to come…

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By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Sep 2019

As Mati Diop mourns Senegal’s lost men, she honors their grief and affords them tremendous power all at once…

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By Leonardo Goi (38) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 11 Jul 2019

Diop speaks her own language–and Atlantics’ is one of seductive, confounding beauty…

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By Anna Smith (519) for Time Out (7,510) on 28 May 2019

Diop tackles serious issues in the framework of a touching and romantic drama with intriguing sways into genre territory, leaving the viewer…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 23 May 2019

What begins as a realist snapshot of the global migrant crisis gradually expands into an aching story of love, loss and the return of the repressed…

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By Caroline Tsai (12) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 May 2019

It bears the aesthetic and thematic hallmarks of an expertly rendered film with an impressively nuanced subjectivity…

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By Martyn Conterio (121) for CineVue (2,163) on 17 May 2019

It doesn’t quite click, is too weird, leads to a lurch from one cinematic style to the other and fails to gel as a satisfying whole…

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By Ben Croll (93) for TheWrap (3,203) on 17 May 2019

If the narrative can sometimes wane, the film’s enveloping atmospherics remain tight throughout…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 May 2019

Atlantics is most successful as a look at a particular milieu, which makes one wonder if Diop might have been better off just making a longer…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 16 May 2019

It has a slippery elegance, an ambitious way of nudging its nose into magic realism, and some unforgettable images…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 16 May 2019

An intense romance notable for the craft of the filmmaking and Diop’s original approach to complex issues of love, loss and the forces for…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 16 May 2019

Diop’s first feature doesn’t always fit together from a narrative perspective, but it musters such an absorbing vision of an alienated…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 16 May 2019

Atlantique may not be perfect, but I admired the way that Diop did not simply submit to the realist mode expected from this kind of material,…

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By Leslie Felperin (768) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 May 2019

A lot of ideas about class, post-imperialism and spiritual values peek up out of the surface of the text, but they're not developed with much…

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By Jay Weissberg (182) for Variety (12,700) on 16 May 2019

The result offers mixed levels of satisfaction, most successful in capturing the protagonist’s leap into adulthood and her increasing reliance…

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