| 100 |
Christian Science Monitor
Dumont's cinematic style is aggressively physical and philosophical at the same time. It irritates as many viewers as it inspires, but it prompts more thought than ordinary movies ever do.
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| 91 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A beautiful and compassionate work, at once stark, sensory and spiritually grasping, that challenges us to forgive even the most monstrous sins.
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| 90 |
The New York Times
You probably won't feel comfortable when Humanité is over, but as you leave the theater you will feel more alive than when you entered.
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| 90 |
Film.com
Audiences willing to wade knee deep in the muck and mire of the human abyss are advised to seek out Humanité at the local arthouse.
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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
A film of stunning impact.
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| 90 |
Chicago Reader
Dumont's film is unfinished in the sense that some paintings are.
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| 90 |
Rolling Stone
It's a haunting, hypnotic film that exerts an escalating grip on the heart and the conscience.
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| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
A harsh, spellbinding tale.
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| 88 |
San Francisco Examiner
Staggering, gorgeously ambiguous.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Not an easy film and is for those few moviegoers who approach a serious movie almost in the attitude of prayer.
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| 84 |
Mr. Showbiz
Dumont's movie has virtually nothing wrong with it -- aside from the fact that it drives people crazy. Take the leap, but expect no answers. Just like life, as they say.
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| 80 |
Village Voice
Confidently absurd.
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| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
It ought to be seen, because it's a work of moral and spiritual mystery.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Humanite isn't like any other film: It's uncompromising, eerily affecting and wildly unresolved.
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| 67 |
Portland Oregonian
Frustrating, tedious and yet often compelling.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Hanna Brown
Maddeningly pretentious and often slow to the point of tedium, Humanite is also hauntingly original and truly strange.
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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
While Dumont's movie has its striking scenes, it is doomed to a sense of lethargy and inertia by the kind of people it ponders and the context in which they are placed.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Other - Staff
Under that small but growing category of movies that break the mold but that no one but a masochist could sit through is Humanité.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
If only the whole thing didn't collapse in on itself, and quickly become a parody of artistic reach and terminal folly.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
This curiously empty film was awarded the Jury Prize at the 1997 Cannes film festival.
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| 40 |
Time
Don't ask us why this minimalist drama won prizes last year at Cannes or why it is getting raves in its U.S. release.
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