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By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 30 Dec 2016

The movie is well made by director Michael Winterbottom (Jude), with a minimum of overdramatics…

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By Joe Leydon (915) for The Moving Picture Show (53) on 18 Jul 2014

By turns darkly comical and passionately angry…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Dallas Observer (1,128) on 09 Apr 2013

Winterbottom has never before done such potent work; he's created a fiction film about the siege of Sarajevo that bristles with the raw, unnerving…

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By Derek Elley (230) for Variety (12,700) on 02 Aug 2011

The film's persistent skimming from one vantage point to another, with no dominant dramatic line until midway through, will unsettle audiences…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 23 Apr 2011

Inevitably, all this seems just too diffuse, and a set of uniformly adept performances (even Harrelson puts a leash on his usual histrionics)…

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By Richard Schickel (546) for Time (1,811) on 01 Sep 2009

This could have turned out to be an exercise in easy sentiment, easy to shrug off…

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By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 16 Sep 2008

Tomei looks far too fresh-scrubbed to be anywhere near a bloody, messy hell like this, but the rest of the cast is grimly realistic, particularly…

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By Elvis Mitchell (489) for The New York Times (9,847) on 04 May 2008

Yet this film, for all its apparent immediacy, winds up less affecting than a more poetic or roundabout approach might be…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 07 Dec 2007

The problem is that Winterbottom has imagined both stories and several others, and tells them in a style designed to feel as if reality has…

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By Edward Guthmann (364) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 20 Nov 2007

The result is startling and repellent -- a challenge to filmgoers accustomed to fake gunfire, fake wounds and cosmeticized death…

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By Mike Clark (1,024) for USA Today (4,117) on 30 Jun 2006

Perhaps the worst thing you can say about Welcome To Sarajevo is that it's not a great film, but it's very good, and it should be seen…

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By Andrea C. Basora (28) for Newsweek (1,534) on 10 Feb 2006

Using an almost seamless combination of documentary and fictional footage, Winterbottom provides a vivid picture of life during wartime --…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 26 Nov 2004

Bleak, darkly humorous and surprisingly unsentimental, Michael Winterbottom's film has the desperate air of a cri de coeur, and unlike many…

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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 26 Oct 2004

In keeping with this background, the movie boldly incorporates actual newsreel footage - with authentic images of human suffering, some of…

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By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for New Times (467) on 16 Jun 2004

Good set-up; less pay-off than I'd hoped…

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By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 19 Sep 2003

It keeps the gag quotient lower than Reds but has a similar effect: more urgent in its desire to make us care about the events it depicts,…

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By Tom Meek (408) for Film Threat (5,156) on 27 Jul 2002

The result is crisp, brutal and utterly inspirational…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 07 Jul 2002

The power comes from Winterbottom's rigorous sense of storytelling, which manages to show and tell terrible tales without telegraphing emotionalism…

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By Lael Loewenstein (88) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 04 Jun 2002

It's an extraordinarily affecting, personal, and at times uplifting tale…

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By Charles Taylor (365) for Salon.com (2,725) on 24 Nov 2001

Winterbottom's film is openly a polemic…

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