Four 12-year-old black boys from one of the most violent ghettos in Baltimore, Maryland, are taken 10,000 miles away to an experimental boarding school in rural Kenya, to try to take advantage of the educational opportunities they can't get in their own country.
The Boys of Baraka has generally received positive reviews.
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Review of The Boys of Baraka (2005)
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Review of The Boys of Baraka (2005)
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Review of The Boys of Baraka (2005)
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The Boys of Baraka was released in 2005 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 79 reviews, giving The Boys of Baraka (2005) an average rating of 74%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 84%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 74%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Boys of Baraka than critics were.
With a score of 74%, The Boys of Baraka is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2005, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2005 with similar scores include films like The Descent, The 40 Year Old Virgin and Election.
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