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By Shawn R (752) on 04 Jan 2016

Film plays like a piece of ISIS propaganda…

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By Charles P (1,784) on 03 Jan 2016

Timbuktu is a beautiful, yet troubling film with a strong message about power and radical religious rule…

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By Joshua F (508) on 02 Jan 2016

I was expecting more, given all the praise heaped upon this movie…

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By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 30 Dec 2015

Sissako doesn't get trapped in mockery, and it says a lot that a tone of ruefulness prevails…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 30 Dec 2015

It's skilful, sardonic, honourably humane. Are those qualities, today, enough…

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By Tony Norman (17) for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (258) on 30 Dec 2015

The first thing a viewer notices about Malian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu…

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By Adam Nayman (350) for The Walrus (6) on 30 Dec 2015

Sissako, who always has balanced his social conscience with a stridently comic sensibility, frames the Islamists as figures of fear, but also…

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By Janet Smith (81) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 30 Dec 2015

Sissako's powerful film proves that Timbuktu's problems, far from being remote, are pretty much at the centre of the world's most urgent issues…

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By Emma Simmonds (380) for The Arts Desk (640) on 30 Dec 2015

The imposition of a brutal jihadist regime is relayed with formidable articulacy and a surprising lightness of touch in this gut-wrenching…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 30 Dec 2015

If Timbuktu has a “takeaway,” it’s a deeply humanist one and so, in this context, political: that there’s no such thing as a monolithic…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 18 Dec 2015

This is a surprisingly gentle movie, a film that lets us understand where all its characters are coming from, not just its heroes…

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By Pam T (17) on 18 Dec 2015

This excellent film pulled me in because of subject matter and kept me there with its poignancy, fine portrayals and the simplicity with which…

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By Valeria P (338) on 18 Dec 2015

Probably the best film I've seen this year…

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By David L (3,419) on 13 Dec 2015

Uma visão árida e esplendorosa do radicalismo islâmico. Uma comunidade precisa conviver com a ditadura cruel da jihad islâmica…

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By Ryan B (2,114) on 29 Nov 2015

An instant classic. a poetic response to the jihadi ideology that plagues modern times…

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By Daryl H (85) on 23 Nov 2015

Fictional account of life under ISIS in Mali. It's a tragic story of life in a harsh land…

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By Robert J (260) on 23 Nov 2015

Fictional account of life under ISIS in Mali. It's a tragic story of life in a harsh land…

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By I-Onell S (454) on 23 Nov 2015

Fictional account of life under ISIS in Mali. It's a tragic story of life in a harsh land…

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By Viet Phuong N (161) on 14 Nov 2015

This flick set into the name title, a Malian town in Africa continent is depicting the town people's struggles…

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By Michael Atkinson (678) for In These Times (58) on 11 Nov 2015

Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako's new, Oscar-nominated film, Timbuktu, is a gorgeously simple take on a madly complex subject: the…

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