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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyRough as can be in both content and style, Ghosts will be welcome everywhere tough, provocative docus are shown.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterIt's an unforgettable, visceral journey into the heart of darkness.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA spectacularly turbulent portrait of the chaos and bloodshed that have come to define Haiti.
- 75New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDives into the brutal heart of a place most people would avoid at all cost.
- 70SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirA moving and profoundly upsetting portrait of life near the bottom of the global power pyramid.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKevin CrustLos Angeles TimesKevin CrustA forceful documentary set against the 2004 Haitian coup d'état that toppled the government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
- 67The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayIf nothing else, Leth shows how wrung-out and careless everyone gets amid constant bloodshed. "We don't need peace," one says. "We need school for our kids. Food. Sleep."
- 63TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxThe underlying political motivation may be unclear, but the violence and desperation of lives lived in something close to hell on earth is terrifyingly clear.
- 50The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottIn spite of occasional gestures in the direction of political or sociological context -- interviews with anti-Aristide activists, news images of battles beyond Cité Soleil -- Mr. Leth is not, in the end, much concerned with offering an analysis of the Haitian situation. Like Lele, he'd rather have a party with the thugs.
- 50Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanGhosts of Cité Soleil is a prismatic, jagged, none too coherent travelogue.