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By Russell Edwards (40) for sbs.com.au (697) on 16 Jan 2015

Timbuktu connects these disparate threads together with a poet's ease and a delightful grace…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for HitFix (861) on 16 Jan 2015

A breathing, bleeding response to a genuine human rights crisis that doesn't view tragedy as a zone exempt from beauty or humor…

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By Dan Fainaru (31) for Screen International (2,241) on 16 Jan 2015

Sissako's precise, economic, style looks almost monastic, but unsurprisingly obtains a far more powerful effect…

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By Elisabeth Lequeret (2) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Jan 2015

Absurd? That's precisely the point of a film that sets up a dialectical opposition between Islam and fundamentalism. Absurd and bloody…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Oct 2014

The rebels are too flatly characterized for the religious conflict to deepen, and Sissako's other main story line, tracing a deadly feud between…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Sep 2014

The film's criticism isn't primarily rooted in satire, but rather in fury and condemnation for those who seek to be gods while shamefully feigning…

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By Blake Howard (505) for 2UE That Movie Show (314) on 07 Jun 2014

Timbuktu is frightening and frustrating viewing. You're watching the noose tighten over an entire town, and at times, it will cause you to gasp…

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By Jo-Anne Titmarsh (79) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 26 May 2014

Sissako may be preaching to the converted here, but he does so with elegance, intelligence and beauty…

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By Jason Gorber (520) for ScreenAnarchy (469) on 16 May 2014

It is a tragedy, yes, but a very human one, with an overall caustic, almost nihilistic absurdity running throughout…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 May 2014

For all its value in bearing witness to the kind of atrocious acts that get but little attention on the world stage, this is not mere testimony,…

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