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72 out of 100

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8.7 out of 10

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  • Starring: Juliane Köhler, Matthias Habich, Merab Ninidze
  • Summary: A love story spanning two continents, Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. (Zeitgeist Films)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    It is so rare to find a film where you become quickly, simply absorbed in the story.
  2. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    100
    Everywhere in Nowhere in Africa, skill and art translate into vivid life.
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  3. Slate
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    60
    There'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.

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