Review of Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) by Emma I — 26 Nov 2006

I dare you to watch this and not be moved.

This review of Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) was written by Emma I on 26 Nov 2006.

Welcome to Sarajevo has generally received positive reviews.

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Winterbottom's Yugo docudrama is powerful and sheds a light on a very real crisis that continued to unfold at the time that the film was made…

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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 Mark H (1,764) on 21 Jan 2010

Well this is a great movie about sad and real situations during the war in Bosna. I think only few people have seen this movie…

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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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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 turns darkly comical and passionately angry…

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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 Dee B (74) on 04 May 2008

One of my favorite movies of all time. Definatly not a feel good typw though…

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By Cory C (170) on 26 Jul 2008

This movie ate me up and spit me out. I'm emotionally drained. Is one of the most intense films I have seen in a long time…

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