In This World
Metascore
75 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Allison Benedikt
    100
    This is an amazing movie, released at a frightening time and made under remarkable circumstances.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    91
    Realer and more consequential than much being packaged for TV and movies these days as ''reality,'' the fictional In This World unfolds with the deceptive dispassion of a documentary, but builds with a sure sense of dramatic epic.
  3. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    91
    Winterbottom's compassion transforms In This World from a political statement into an eloquent and involving human drama.
  4. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    90
    Although fictionalized, it feels depressingly real. It's a 90-minute newsreel with a broken heart.
  5. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    88
    Without an ounce of phony Hollywood uplift, Winterbottom's film cuts right to the heart.
  6. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    88
    A tremendous human drama, with each stage of its characters' journey a white-knuckle thriller in miniature.
  7. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    88
    Without proclaiming itself a wake-up call for the West, In This World cries out for some new method of achieving international trust.

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