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By David Foucher (211) for EDGE Boston (239) on 27 Sep 2006

A tour de force performance by Forrest Whittaker makes this Idi Amin biopic a compelling, challenging, edgy film…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 26 Sep 2006

The compression of time is a stiff reminder that we are watching, after all, a movie…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 26 Sep 2006

It would all be for naught without Whitaker, who makes Amin fun, funny, vulnerable and poignant while never letting us forget his murderous monomania…

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By Rob Vaux (1,125) for Flipside Movie Emporium (617) on 26 Sep 2006

As storytelling, it could use some fine tuning, but it keeps its dark premise close to its heart at all times…

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By Kim Voynar (107) for Cinematical (752) on 26 Sep 2006

Whitaker carries the film on his broad shoulders, creating a realistic and frightening portrait of one of the world's most elusive and notorious…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for Modamag.com (300) on 26 Sep 2006

Featuring an extraordinary, Oscar-worthy performance by Forest Whitaker, this gripping drama interweaves historical fact with fiction into…

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By Jeffrey Chen (849) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 25 Sep 2006

Few films this year have been as suspenseful as The Last King of Scotland, which is due in large part to the tour de force performance of Forest…

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By Anne Gilbert (23) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 25 Sep 2006

It's Mean Girls, with more bloody warlords…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 20 Sep 2006

Forest Whitaker makes the case for a best-actor Oscar or, even better, a best-actor designation from NY Film Critics Online…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Lessons of Darkness (465) on 19 Sep 2006

A stinging rebuke to both do-gooder white-man's-burden fantasies and the disingenuous, Africa-exoticizing movies that promote them…

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By Bridget Byrne (40) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 18 Sep 2006

Forest Whitaker's performance as Idi Amin is so good it's scary…

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By Jeremiah Kipp (262) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2006

Provides a vivid snapshot of Uganda and a tour-de-force portrayal of a creature who is all the more horrifying because his evil is so recognizable,…

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By Eugene Novikov (936) for Film Blather (908) on 08 Sep 2006

McDonald gets the relationship between the two central characters so right, makes it so fascinating, that more historical detail would have…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 07 Sep 2006

This politicized Faustian tale is a provocative and shrewd blend of fact and fiction in the case of a naive doctor seduced into Amin's political…

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