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By Andrew Crump (271) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 21 Nov 2017

Twomey gives The Breadwinner ballast, binding it to the real-world history that serves as its basis, and elevates it to realms of imagination…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 20 Nov 2017

Parvana creates art and energy in the stories she tells Zaki, inspiring and distracting him as the movie takes on another set of possibilities,…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 20 Nov 2017

[The Breadwinner] is a harrowing-and spellbinding-exploration of life under Taliban rule…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for Indiewire (3,631) on 20 Nov 2017

So urgent and far-reaching that it never settles into the comforts of a coming-of-age story, The Breadwinner is a small film about the biggest…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 17 Nov 2017

A well-crafted animation whose main character is a budding young woman who will not let anything, not even the Taliban threat of death, from…

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By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 17 Nov 2017

This beautiful and powerful Afghan-themed story of survival and one little girl's determination is surely the best animated feature of 2017…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 17 Nov 2017

Tough stuff that feature cartoons should tackle more often but rarely do, presented here with grace and steel…

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By Peter Sobczynski (1,159) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 17 Nov 2017

An ambitious but occasionally uneven animated film…

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By Sandie Angulo Chen (751) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 17 Nov 2017

Powerful, intense animated tale of life under Taliban rule…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 Nov 2017

A work of striking beauty and affecting emotional heft enhanced by an Afghan-themed score by Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna, The Breadwinner reminds…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for The New York Times (9,847) on 16 Nov 2017

In its alternating of Parvana’s day-to-day struggle with the tale she tells herself, the movie doesn’t promote bromides about stories and…

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By Ray Greene (127) for CineGods.com (32) on 16 Nov 2017

A parable about the unthinking misogyny women suffer everywhere. THE BREADWINNER is a shaken fist in a time of righteous wrath…

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By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Nov 2017

It’s notable that since her hair is cut short and she’s wearing male clothes, none of the men suspect that she’s not a boy despite her…

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By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Nov 2017

Cross-dressing in the story is merely a tool for survival, but such border-crossing is inevitably rife with unintended consequences beyond…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 03 Nov 2017

It directly confronts the misogyny and chauvinism of contemporary Afghanistan, while powerfully suggesting that storytelling is both a means…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 28 Oct 2017

Not unlike her gutsy protagonist, Twomey moves through the charged landscape with extraordinary agility…

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By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 28 Oct 2017

Adapted by Anita Doron from the award-winning novel by Deborah Ellis, The Breadwinner delivers a heart-wrenching coming-of-age tale within…

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By Matthew Anderson (173) for CineVue (2,163) on 28 Oct 2017

Delighting in the ancient tradition of storytelling as a means of education and understanding as well as entertainment, Nora Twomey's The Breadwinner…

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By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 03 Oct 2017

The film's strongest appeal is for readers of the series and animation fans…

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By Chelsea Phillips-Carr (52) for Cinema Scope (405) on 24 Sep 2017

The Breadwinner offers no respect or agency to real women; it's almost as if Twomey et al were consciously trying to set feminist postcolonial…

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