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By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Playlist (3,871) on 24 May 2018

Capharnaüm is not without its issues. The director over-relies on the courtroom scenes and the movie’s message is heavy-handed at times…

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By Anna Smith (519) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 May 2018

It’s quietly absorbing and fitfully shocking as we experience the sights, sounds and smells of the streets where a one-year-old child can…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 22 May 2018

The film contains some outstanding performances by children (including a toddler!) and it's undeniably going straight for the heartstrings…

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By Joseph Walsh (276) for The Skinny (809) on 21 May 2018

Capernaum will have you in floods of tears…

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By Lisa Z (46) on 20 May 2018

Saw this at Cannes. What a false-intentioned, Western audience-pandering, insincere load of nonsense…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 20 May 2018

A social-realist blockbuster – fired by furious compassion and teeming with sorrow, yet strewn with diamond-shards of beauty, wit and hope…

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By Lucy W (391) on 20 May 2018

Saw this at Cannes. What a false-intentioned, Western audience-pandering, insincere load of nonsense…

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By Mari G (10) on 20 May 2018

Saw this at Cannes. What a false-intentioned, Western audience-pandering, insincere load of nonsense…

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By Jay R (425) on 20 May 2018

Saw this at Cannes. What a false-intentioned, Western audience-pandering, insincere load of nonsense…

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By Gus Edgar (19) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 19 May 2018

Labaki piles on the sentimentality, seemingly unaware that the inherently harrowing premise is reason enough to care…

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By Caspar Salmon (4) for Sight and Sound (827) on 18 May 2018

Some will find the film's politics belaboured, but Labaki has earned the right, with her fully evidenced inquiry into destitution, to ram points home…

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By Martyn Conterio (121) for CineVue (2,163) on 18 May 2018

Makes for a generally powerful statement on human misery and grotesque inequality, though some third act creative decisions and maneuvers cause…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 17 May 2018

It’s a deeply assured piece of direction, and though it only plays a few emotional notes, they are ones that won’t soon leave your memory…

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By Carlos F. Heredero (36) for Caimán Cuadernos de Cine (109) on 17 May 2018

It is, therefore, an aesthetic manipulation of a dramatic social picture, which reveals a more than questionable view of its materials by the…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 17 May 2018

It’s a simplistic film in some ways, with a naive ending – but there is energy and vigour, too…

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By Jay Weissberg (182) for Variety (12,700) on 17 May 2018

While this is unquestionably an issue film, it tackles its subject with intelligence and heart…

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By Leslie Felperin (768) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 May 2018

Although the narrative is structured through a highly unbelievable instigating conceit — Zain is trying to sue his own parents in court for…

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By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 17 May 2018

If it doesn’t tie many (or any) of these thematic strands with a neat bow, that’s in the nature of a film that chooses raw dramatic power…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 May 2018

Capernaum’s neorealist spirit is smothered by its sentimentality and endless string of indignities; it’s as if the film is operating as…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 17 May 2018

Capernaum is a movie that wants its audience to empathize with its protagonist so intensely that you agree he should never have been born…

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