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Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: Salles ... has found the beauty not only in this terrible place, but in a story by novelist Ismail Kadare that originally was set in Albania. Read more
Renee Graham, Boston Globe: Poignant and wrenching. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A lovely journey, but it's like a picture book whose text is merely incidental. Read more
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: A bleak, beautiful cinematic fable driven by the brutal logic of blood feuds and transformed by an overpowering sense of wonder. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Salles has the confidence of a storyteller too entranced by his tale to worry about the resistance of his audience, which he thus effortlessly overcomes. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: A dreary Aristotelian tragedy whose contemporary geopolitical relevance cannot compensate for the lack of gripping protagonists. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A rewarding parable on the futility of revenge and the redemptive power of self-sacrificing love. Read more
Hank Sartin, Chicago Reader: The appearance of circus performers in any film not by Fellini usually bodes ill, and it does so here. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: You're always aware ... that you're watching a quaintly middle-class, museum-poster notion of an 'elemental' peasant fable. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Salles starts with the loudly trumpeted theme, then tacks on a slim plot to justify the clamour. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: After a certain point, no one is right and no one is wrong, both sides have boundless grievances, and it's the audience that wants to run away with the circus. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Salles is a fine director with the ability to invest moments with a sense of tragedy and inexorable fate. Read more
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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Salles' movie taps into matters that are at once ancient and mythical and, needless to say, headline-fresh. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: The trajectory is grimly inevitable, and yet its final descent still manages to startle. Read more