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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for AV Club (2,778) on 28 Sep 2006

There must come a reckoning, and in The Last King Of Scotland, the loss of innocence consumes the whole final hour, during which time Whitaker…

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By Blancoa. (35) on 28 Sep 2006

An outstanding film in every respect…

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By Jan Stuart (404) for Newsday (2,345) on 27 Sep 2006

The colonialist spirit is alive and well in The Last King of Scotland, a return to the pandering celluloid depictions of African turmoil that…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for OhmyNews.com (129) on 27 Sep 2006

It observes the insanity of Amin through the eyes of a corrupted soul, leaving just enough space between fact and fiction to flesh out a fascinating…

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By Stax (77) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 27 Sep 2006

The Last King of Scotland belongs to Forest Whitaker. He is the key to making this Faustian bargain work…

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By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 27 Sep 2006

This isn't a history lesson, it's Playing God co-starring Idi Amin with Scully instead of Mulder…

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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 Nielmcdream (1) on 26 Sep 2006

Forest Whitaker, uncorking the power that he usually holds in check, gives a chilling, bravura performance as Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin, whose…

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By [Anonymous] (537) on 26 Sep 2006

Drawing on a documentary visual style he deftly employed in One Day in September and Touching the Void, director Kevin Macdonald uses McAvoy's…

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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…

Review of The Last King of Scotland (2006)

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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