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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 18 Feb 2011

Portentous narration by Jeremy Irons tries to fill up the dead spots, but the script is too fond of feline mind reading and philosophizing…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 18 Feb 2011

Riveting, especially since these animals' population has horrifyingly dropped from 450,000 to 20,000 in a half-century…

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By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 18 Feb 2011

The story feels more like it originated on a screenwriter's laptop rather than a marsh in a remote corner of the Kalihari desert in Botswana,…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 17 Feb 2011

One's confidence in factuality is weakened by a cliché-ridden narrative that reads Ma di Tau's mind during her buffalo hunt, and by incessant…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 17 Feb 2011

An extraordinary documentary about a fierce and creative wild lioness in Botswana who is doing all she can to nurture and defend her cubs as…

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By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 17 Feb 2011

A lioness and her cubs battle for survival on an island in a Botswana nature preserve in a stunning documentary marred by an overwrought narration…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 17 Feb 2011

Mightily impressive to look at. What it's like to listen to is somewhat different…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 16 Feb 2011

The footage, by Dereck and Beverly Joubert, is stunning…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Time Out (7,510) on 15 Feb 2011

Overflowing with super-slow motion, color filters and the clunkiest of flashbacks, The Last Lions frequently amplifies the melodrama to borderline-excessive…

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By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Feb 2011

Though floridly written and relentlessly scored, the film's dramas are more persuasively framed than many human ones, going so far as to include…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 07 Feb 2011

There's real grrrrrrl power in this haunting portrait of an African lioness…

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