Review of The Boys of Baraka (2005) by Ernest Hardy for L.A. Weekly — 19 Jan 2006
The kids absolutely win your heart, but there's something off-putting in the film's lazy juxtaposition of unexamined Negro dysfunction tropes (absent fathers, violent streets) against an idyllic Africa tended by white benevolence.
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This review of The Boys of Baraka (2005) was written by Ernest Hardy and published by L.A. Weekly on 19 Jan 2006.
The Boys of Baraka has generally received positive reviews.
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