Boorman treats this moving, important subject with restraint, tact, and candid views of horrors suffered by the nation.
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USA TodayMike Clark
USA TodayMike Clark
Boorman's troubles usually come from going over the top (atop Exorcist II, there's always Zardoz). But this is one of his few misfires that almost anyone would call tepid.
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Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
In My Country doesn't so much explore as use the tragedy of black South Africa to give its heroine a righteous slap of nobility.
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The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The charisma and hard work by his two leads allows Boorman to succeed beyond all expectations.
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L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
In My Country stands closest to "Hotel Rwanda," a similarly clumsy yet inescapably moving effort to confront the brutal consequences of colonial oppression.
Boorman's stars Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson are valiant - even impressive - but they cannot rescue this grueling film or its mechanical plot.
An unquestionably sincere but dramatically stillborn outing by veteran John Boorman.
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Village VoiceJessica Winter
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Boorman's bathetic tourism is unconscionable for a subject of this magnitude; for an infinitely superior account of this chapter of South African history, seek out the documentary "Long Night's Journey Into Day."
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The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Any social good the film might do gets lost in a soupy morass of histrionics, clumsy storytelling, overripe dialogue, and rampant didacticism.