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Capernaum

Capharnaüm

2018

Nadine Labaki

Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Kawthar Al Haddad, Fadi Kamel Youssef ...

7.8

9,192

Drama A political and contemporary fable, “Capernaum” centers around a child who rebels against the life he’s been imposed and launches a lawsuit.

	Author	Review
United States	Barbara Scharres rogerebert.com	"A cathartic but manipulative film (...) It’s the kind of film calculated to make audiences feel good about human rights"	NEU
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"It tackles its subject with intelligence and heart (...) Labaki does a superb job capturing the cacophony of the streets (...) 'Capernaum' is notably more sophisticated than Labaki’s previous work"	POS
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"Labaki lures such outstanding performances out of the almost entirely non-professional cast and sketches such a credible view of this wretchedly poor milieu that the flaws are mostly forgivable"	POS
United States	Ben Croll The Wrap	"In a kind of filmmaking miracle (...) the barely one-year-old Bankole delivers a full-on performance (...) Labaki throws everything (...) on screen in a bid to melt hearts and win world-cinema acclaim"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Every emotion is negated by another, until we’re left with nothing but the mess we were presented from the start"	NEG
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"A film as grounded in a place and time and yet as universal in its empathy with the dispossessed as 'Bicycle Thieves' or 'Salaam Bombay!'"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Naturalism meets melodrama in this harrowing, hectic tale of a lost boy’s adventures in the slums and shantytowns of Beirut."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It’s a simplistic film in some ways, with a naive ending – but there is energy and vigour, too (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"The result is a film that already feels like a landmark (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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