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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 29 Jan 2015

Timbuktu is bracingly original and unexpected-a welcome shock to the system for American moviegoers who've grown used to seeing prosaic melodrama…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 28 Jan 2015

Each scene is breathtaking, such as a long shot of a river at a key moment, and an unforgettable soccer game played with no ball…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for Associated Press (1,685) on 28 Jan 2015

Avoiding stereotypes, the movie shrinks larger political and religious battles down to the people of a desert town - city dwellers and nomadic…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 28 Jan 2015

A thoroughly remarkable and disquieting film from Mali’s Abderrahamane Sissako, Timbuktu is also a work of almost breathtaking visual beauty,…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 28 Jan 2015

Timbuktu’s delicate tone is totally unexpected and specific to Sissako, who keeps finding notes of vulnerability…

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By Amir Soltani (20) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 28 Jan 2015

Through the filmmaker's poetic vision and rich grasp of the milieu, Timbuktu becomes politically perceptive and emotionally authentic, depicting…

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By Erica Abeel (109) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 28 Jan 2015

A nuanced, humanistic portrait of a town besieged by jihadists, its images of violence suffused with almost surreal dreaminess…

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By Cole J (77) on 27 Jan 2015

It's a powerful portrait of a society repressed by religious fundamentalists that has several moments of beauty…

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By Joseph C (809) on 25 Jan 2015

I wound mine seen this movie with my mom…

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By Particular P (1) on 16 Jan 2015

12 September 2014 review of Timbuktu at the Toronto International Film Festival What I thought of this movie before seeing it I expect this…

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By Fernando G (124) on 16 Jan 2015

12 September 2014 review of Timbuktu at the Toronto International Film Festival What I thought of this movie before seeing it I expect this…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 16 Jan 2015

Sissako’s methods are confrontational, yet never to the point that you feel you’re watching sacrificial lambs instead of people caught…

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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 Robert N (248) on 12 Jan 2015

When this wasn't totally boring me, it was horribly depressing…

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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 Moritz S (1) on 31 Dec 2014

Excellent film - visually stunning, heartbreaking, honest…

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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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