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100Truly magnificent.
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80Poignant though it is, the movie is the opposite of depressing. There is too much life in it.
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75Haroun is deft at handling the joys and pain of childhood. He neither condescends nor over-sentimentalizes. It is a story of separation anxiety (for Amine) and coming of age (for Tahir) and it's universal.
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70Haroun and cinematographer Abraham Haile Biru carefully frame their characters with a painterly elegance that is at times truly startling.
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70Abouna starkly defines the masculine and feminine influence in raising children, and what happens when they're not so complementary.
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70By way of a tragic left hook, Haroun's relaxed movie climaxes back where it began, on the devastated home ground. The journey, however pessimistic, is like a gentle handshake.
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70Haroun's film is both touching and, ultimately, almost perversely optimistic.
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70The story of the film is a quiet local tale; the directing is sophisticated.
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70Understated but affecting.
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50This modest little film out of Africa suffers from largely rudderless direction, relying for any sense of profundity on the breathtaking beauty of Abraham Haile Biru's cinematography.
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M.Daye10Sometimes silence can say so much more than blocks of mawkish dialogue. Brilliantly-acted and wonderfully shot.