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Metascore
31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThis is an intelligent epic told without special pleading, a film able to cut deep enough to reveal a keen specificity of experience.
- 88Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrThe movie's strength is its refusal to offer easy answers.
- 88USA TodayMike ClarkUSA TodayMike ClarkIt's also as good as "Out of Africa."
- 80L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorThe movie's real strength lies in its intelligent, sympathetic account of the dynamic, difficult marriage of Regina's parents.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumAudience empathy for the displaced Redlichs, coupled with the filmmaker's proffered charms of wise natives and their mysterious rituals, goes a long way toward making this lyrical travelogue a crowd pleaser.
- 67Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerSeattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerNever quite escapes the Euro-centric blinders of its characters, but its engagement with their evolving sense of identity and story of empowerment and acceptance is nonetheless rousing.
- 60SlateDavid EdelsteinSlateDavid EdelsteinThere's something too refined and emotionally neutral about Nowhere in Africa, as if Link had directed with white gloves. Maybe she knew how loaded this African-Jewish subject was and didn't want it push it too hard. Maybe that's why she won an Oscar.
- 60Washington PostWashington PostWhat rescues the film is Gernot Roll's spare, almost aesthetic cinematography, and the quality of the acting.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyIsn't really a dull film so much as an oddly quaint one that seems to find a comfortable perspective about drastic circumstances.