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By Kevin C. Johnson (66) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 15 Oct 2015

The ugly world portrayed here isn't for all appetites, but it is depicted with a gripping authenticity…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 15 Oct 2015

I sense something honest in Fukunaga's motives - he wants to put you there, with his characters, to anchor you with a vivid sense of place…

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By Matt Singer (625) for ScreenCrush (954) on 15 Oct 2015

Netflix made a movie that will probably not play very well on Netflix…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 15 Oct 2015

The film is good to excellent in every way except morally, and there it's questionable more often than it should be, not because it's an evil…

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By Max Nicholson (65) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 14 Oct 2015

Beasts of No Nation isn't the type of movie you enjoy, but it is extremely effective in depicting one boy's harrowing journey into the heart of war…

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By Beth Accomando (509) for KPBS.org (509) on 14 Oct 2015

The strength of the film comes from the intensely intimate focus it keeps on Agu who is formidably played by young Attah…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 14 Oct 2015

A consuming, harrowing adventure story that holds onto hope in spite of horror…

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By John Hartl (735) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 14 Oct 2015

It poses some big questions and does so in a way that's most compelling…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 14 Oct 2015

The idea that there may be life after war and murder, even for the murderers, and what that might look like — what burdens you might be allowed…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 14 Oct 2015

The country goes unnamed, the warring factions aren't always clear, but the nightmarish exploitation of children is made specific in the most…

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By Simon Reynolds (297) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 14 Oct 2015

Those with a strong stomach will be rewarded with a powerful film about the grim realities of war…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 14 Oct 2015

This is a harrowing film to watch…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Oct 2015

Idris Elba gives an intense performance as the boy's commanding officer and eventual father figure; his character comes across as monstrous…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 14 Oct 2015

Fukunaga's film is thus mired in a hazy, nightmarish fugue of violence and degradation, the director presenting a landscape of hellish depravity…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 14 Oct 2015

The atrocities against children begin to acquire an unwelcome redundancy in their relentlessness and threaten to inure the viewer…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 14 Oct 2015

Fukunaga imbues this study of manipulation and manufactured loyalty with an unsettling degree of visual richness and lush natural detail…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 14 Oct 2015

I never felt emotionally exploited by the terrors on screen. Rather, Beasts of No Nation is an act of gripping empathy…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Oct 2015

The problem with Beasts Of No Nation is that it approaches war largely on the level aesthetic challenge, meaning that whatever sense of revulsion…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 14 Oct 2015

It's not only a moving film but, far rarer, an important one, calling our attention to one war that never ends: The war on innocence…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 14 Oct 2015

The movie itself is an effective nightmare, and a solid piece of filmmaking, strong enough to make you wish that it could have borne the full…

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