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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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By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 14 Oct 2015

For all its brutality, darkness, and ruminations about how a higher power can allow such things to happen, Beasts of No Nation is also leavened…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 14 Oct 2015

Fukunaga is a dazzling stylist, and at times the shifting palettes of the cinematography and the brilliant camera moves (he’s also the DP…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 14 Oct 2015

Although it's hard not to flinch every time a bullet fires, these are not shock tactics, but frightening parts of a compassionate, well-crafted film…

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By Daryl A (3) on 13 Oct 2015

Great script. Outstanding performances by Abraham Attah and Idris Elba…

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By Pj E (175) on 13 Oct 2015

Great script. Outstanding performances by Abraham Attah and Idris Elba…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 13 Oct 2015

Undeniably hard to watch, but also a dramatically wrenching depiction of contemporary realities one might prefer to ignore-but shouldn't…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 Oct 2015

The world here is so ugly that only beautiful tracking shots, rich close-ups and adroit handheld work could make it bearable…

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By Ethan Alter (997) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 13 Oct 2015

War is (a beautiful) hell in Cary Joji Fukunaga's disconcertingly picturesque combat film…

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By Pia T (4) on 13 Oct 2015

Great script. Outstanding performances by Abraham Attah and Idris Elba…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 13 Oct 2015

Sure to be a favorite with racists, Beasts of No Nation sheds no light whatsoever on Africa’s civil wars but turns its gaze on black people…

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By Neil Smith (699) for Total Film (3,532) on 12 Oct 2015

Part war story, part endurance test, this harrowing portrait of a young boy’s loss of innocence is gripping, gruelling, grown-up fare…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 11 Oct 2015

There has never been a war movie like this…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 11 Oct 2015

We march through pillage and rape, and the Commandant tightens his power through abuse of his youthful charges; meanwhile, the film itself,…

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By Gareth W (142) on 11 Oct 2015

Is it possible to give six stars…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 10 Oct 2015

Fukunaga's self-shot widescreen cinematography and Dan Romer's swirling score lend an epic sweep to the harrowing, heartbreaking narrative…

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