83
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyWhile the movie’s multiple images are never less than numinous, and its rhythms sometimes skirt the strangely seductive, this astonishing movie is the opposite of hypnotic.
- 90The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe New YorkerRichard BrodyAn intimate movie with a metaphysical grandeur, a detailed local inquiry that displays the crushing power of societal forces as well as the passion and vitality of those who endure.
- 80The GuardianJordan HoffmanThe GuardianJordan HoffmanThis movie is foremost an ethnographic exercise, and whether it is a rallying cry or poverty porn is for the viewer to decide.
- 80Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlAllah, a street photographer of deserved renown, has achieved something here beyond the familiar documentary impulse to show us the people who live on the streets. His immersive, unsettling techniques dig at a sense of what it might feel like to be among them.
- 75The PlaylistCharlie SchmidlinThe PlaylistCharlie SchmidlinIntimate, singular, and hallucinatory on all aesthetic levels, the film strips politics down to the bone, not always successful but never opportunistic.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungThe Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungAs a poetic dispatch from society's lower depths, Field Niggas is an oblique but inescapably topical slice of slick but rough-edged humanism — a polyphonic roundelay that hits some powerfully discordant notes before the director decides to start tooting his own horn.