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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 Muguet M (1) on 20 Dec 2018

Every child and every human being deserves a decent life with good health, education, and unconditional love. These are basic needs in life…

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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 Sarinakedi (1) on 16 Dec 2018

When journalists question Labaki about her “film”, she mentions the great political cause that drove her to make it…

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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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By Robert Abele (1,309) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 13 Dec 2018

[Labaki] finds a magically resonant space between documentary-like vibe and dramatic performance that honors the characters’ inherent humanity…

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By Monica Castillo (380) for TheWrap (3,203) on 13 Dec 2018

Days after watching the movie, I still have some reservations about how abuse is shown in the film, but it’s hauntingly effective…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Dec 2018

Capernaum brims with compassion for the downtrodden, and that will likely be enough for many viewers (as it clearly was for the Cannes jury)…

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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 10 Dec 2018

Labaki depicts underworld barbarity, official indifference, and the crushing weight of traditional misogyny through Zain's ferociously intelligent,…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 07 Dec 2018

[Director Nadine] Labaki is not without her glosses and her storytelling can be clunky, but the film is graced with many seemingly peripheral…

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By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Dec 2018

Zain Al Rafeea's naturalness, however uncanny, only makes the film's maneuverings seem all the more obvious…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Big Apple Reviews (55) on 28 Nov 2018

Given its stark visuals, its authentic acting by non professionals, and its humanism, Capernaum has become the obvious entry by Lebanon to…

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By Alan French (85) for We Bought a Blog (53) on 24 Oct 2018

All of this brilliance stems from the brilliant script from Labaki…

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