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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 16 Oct 2013

It’s a powerfully sensual movie, gorgeously lensed colors and textures conveying its characters emotional states while thoughtfully exploring…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 15 Oct 2013

Just when it seems as if there are no new worlds for cinema to explore, a movie like Mother of George comes along to prove otherwise…

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By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Oct 2013

Dosunmu is an up-and-coming director; Mother of George is his second film after the much-lauded Restless City…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 08 Oct 2013

The joy is in the detail of Dosunmu's film, the nuance of a relationship as richly complex as the African print dresses that Adenike favours…

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By Gerald Peary (163) for Arts Fuse (166) on 06 Oct 2013

Mother of George might work better with an operatic score, for all its brooding, pain, and masochism.Arias, anyone…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 02 Oct 2013

Not your everyday dilemma, but as depicted in this lushly detailed and passionately performed melodrama, the mores and traditions of this sequestered,…

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By Marc R (473) on 30 Sep 2013

Visually arresting yet narratively deficient, this film furthers the case that Bradford Young is the most sophisticated visualists working…

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By Ryan B (2,114) on 30 Sep 2013

Visually arresting yet narratively deficient, this film furthers the case that Bradford Young is the most sophisticated visualists working…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 29 Sep 2013

Darci Picoult’s script renders all of these characters, if not always sympathetically, humanly and fully…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 26 Sep 2013

Gurira acts with fire and pride and, at times, a despair bordering on instability…

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By Christopher Schobert (126) for The Playlist (3,871) on 26 Sep 2013

The most visually arresting drama of 2013, and certainly one of the year’s best films…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 26 Sep 2013

The cinematography by Bradford Young is rich-toned and lustrous, and the film, until it bogs down in melodramatics, has a sensual ease…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Sep 2013

The movie's an eyeful, and the filmmakers' attention to surface texture results in passages of genuine eroticism…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 24 Sep 2013

In [cinematographer Bradford Young's] striking compositions, shapes and patterns repeat, colors convey meaning (watch how - and when - rust…

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By Peter F (998) on 21 Sep 2013

While slower than it needed to be at times, it's a pretty gorgeous film about a relationship and what it could take, through the lens of immigration…

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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 20 Sep 2013

Frustrations one family faces between tradition and assimilation, freedom and obligation, success and personal fulfillment feels as movingly…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 18 Sep 2013

It is the kind of distinctive, culture-driven drama from emerging filmmakers that I wish we saw more of…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 12 Sep 2013

Oddly, the gradual pacing, with scenes that stress the pace of chill human interaction over narrative thrust, helps make the third act more…

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By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 12 Sep 2013

The result is a work in which style and story unite to create a singularly mesmerizing look at a culture within a culture…

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By Tomas Hachard (101) for NPR (1,713) on 12 Sep 2013

Mother of George's cinematography, for which it won an award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, is by and large one of its standout features…

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