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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 10 Jan 2019

Capernaum is an absolute heartbreaker about children in peril and the plight of undocumented people…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 10 Jan 2019

Labaki does beautiful work with her nonprofessional cast, most of whom are refugees, and her non-chronological structure builds unhurried suspense…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Original Cin (1,156) on 10 Jan 2019

Capernaum is a movie with a lot of dramatic ideas and plot-points, worthy of a miniseries at least, squeezed into a two-hour sausage of misery…

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By Anne Brodie (132) for What She Said (131) on 10 Jan 2019

One of the most unsettling films of the year, and its based on the filmmaker's observations and experiences in the city's slums…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 09 Jan 2019

Despite small but powerful gestures in the finale, it leaves the audience feeling just as immobilized and powerless as its characters…

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By Min-Sik Yoon (9) for Korea Herald (9) on 08 Jan 2019

It is simultaneously a rallying cry and a hymn of persistence: a strong drama that provokes the audience to think while showing a glimmer of…

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By Natalia Winkelman (145) for The Daily Beast (380) on 05 Jan 2019

Labaki's lens is so patient and empathic, her knack for storytelling so full of soul and temerity, that we're inclined to follow her lead…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 26 Dec 2018

Capernaum makes the 2018 critics' favorite Shoplifters look like an afternoon at Disneyland…

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By Leonard Maltin (609) for leonardmaltin.com (584) on 25 Dec 2018

Capernaum, which roughly translates to chaos, is a deeply empathetic movie, made all the more remarkable by Labaki's work with non-professional…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 20 Dec 2018

It's a rewarding and well-made arthouse film…

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By Anita Katz (182) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 20 Dec 2018

Despite an occasional bit of heavy-handedness, the film credibly and grippingly looks at poverty, child neglect, refugees and ID-card insanity…

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By Joey Magidson (137) for Hollywood News (128) on 19 Dec 2018

Kudos to Labaki for going out there and bringing this story to us…

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By Andrea Thompson (34) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 17 Dec 2018

Capernaum may be a flawed portrait of the voiceless masses whose daily lives mock all the lofty ideals of the state it portrays, but its rallying…

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By Carlos Valladares (1) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 17 Dec 2018

Real life is Capernaum's supposed target, but the filmmakers exhaust most of their energy squeezing plot beats into place…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 14 Dec 2018

For all of its brutal, raw force, Labaki’s excellent film is tough sledding — a sucker punch that lands with the emotional force of Dickens…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for America Magazine (69) on 14 Dec 2018

Viewers are thereby hooked, and the Lebanese director Nadine Labaki keeps them that way throughout a picaresque journey through the streets…

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 14 Dec 2018

There is an undeniable neorealist quality to Labaki’s work, bringing to mind not only the first half of Garth Davis’ Lion, but also the…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 13 Dec 2018

Something must be done, but it's never clear if Labaki and her fellow screenwriters ... have an idea as to what that something might be…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 13 Dec 2018

The sorrow inherent in this tale would be unbearable without the film’s flashes of humor and performances by a cast of nonprofessionals that…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 13 Dec 2018

Capernaum, a sprawling tale wrenched from real life, goes beyond the conventions of documentary or realism into a mode of representation that…

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