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Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: While Grbavica concerns a legacy of hatred, it's also optimistic about Bosnia's physical and emotional reconstruction. If the film's final image doesn't move you, you'd better check your pulse. Read more
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Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The admirable feminist agenda occasionally trips up the narrative, but the film's performances keep it on track. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Grbavica is a film we watch with our heart in our mouth, wondering when, if ever, the war will end for those who lived through it and, at least physically, survived. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams is written and directed by Jasmila Zbanic in a stripped-down style that carries cumulative force. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The dramatic conflicts are soapy and unsubtle, but Karanovic pours intense authority into Esma's scarred psyche. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Gbravica is a womanly movie in the best sense: [writer-director] Zbanic has a deeply feminine sense of how crisis gets filtered through the moments of daily life. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Though in writer-director Jasmila Zbanic's gritty, affecting film the Bosnian war has been over for more than a decade, it is hardly absent in the memories of those struggling to lead normal lives amid the rubble. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams shows Westerners the aftermath of a story we may have forgotten. And it reminds us that the horrors of that war still go on, every time one of its survivors closes her eyes. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: [Director] Zbanic takes an effective, low-key approach, telling the intimate story of a single mother and preteen daughter who live in Grbavica, a grim neighborhood that once served as an internment camp. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Mirjana Karanovic and Luna Mijovic give powerful performances as [director] Zbanic imbues a simple story with a powerful commentary on the Bosnian war's devastating impact on the innocent. It's a lesson the world has yet to learn. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Like its music, the film's emotions proceed from lament to screaming screed to chorus of hope. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: [Director Jasmila] Zbanic is such an acute observer of women's lives in their intimate details, and constructs such fine scenes, that I think this might be the best film to emerge from the aftermath of the Balkan conflict. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: The portrayal of a wounded society is compelling, and the film ends on a very modestly hopeful note, appropriate for a country where the 'dreams' have been mostly painful. Read more