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  • Summary: Nik is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute that leaves a fellow villager murdered. According to a centuries-old code of law, this entitles the dead man's family to take the life of a male from Nik's family as retribution. His uncle in jail and his father in hiding, Nik is the prime target and confined to the home while his younger sister Rudina is forced to leave school and take over their father's business. (Sundance Selects)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 20 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 23
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  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    Mar 8, 2012
    88
    It's a thriller that feels like a documentary.
  2. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    Mar 8, 2012
    88
    While The Forgiveness of Blood lacks the narrative momentum of director Joshua Marston's previous film, "Maria Full of Grace" - it is nonetheless fascinating.
  3. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Joshua Rothkopf
    Feb 21, 2012
    60
    No matter how sincere, Marston's effort also suffers from the lack of a burning lead as he had in Maria's Catalina Sandino Moreno. Fierce acting is a virtue you don't have to travel the world to find - or to lose sight of.

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