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27 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittBoorman treats this moving, important subject with restraint, tact, and candid views of horrors suffered by the nation.
- 63USA TodayMike ClarkUSA TodayMike ClarkBoorman's troubles usually come from going over the top (atop Exorcist II, there's always Zardoz). But this is one of his few misfires that almost anyone would call tepid.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIn My Country doesn't so much explore as use the tragedy of black South Africa to give its heroine a righteous slap of nobility.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe charisma and hard work by his two leads allows Boorman to succeed beyond all expectations.
- 50L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorIn My Country stands closest to "Hotel Rwanda," a similarly clumsy yet inescapably moving effort to confront the brutal consequences of colonial oppression.
- 50The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenHigh-minded but hopelessly wooden film.
- 50Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasBoorman's stars Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson are valiant - even impressive - but they cannot rescue this grueling film or its mechanical plot.
- 40VarietyDerek ElleyVarietyDerek ElleyAn unquestionably sincere but dramatically stillborn outing by veteran John Boorman.
- 30Village VoiceJessica WinterVillage VoiceJessica WinterBoorman's bathetic tourism is unconscionable for a subject of this magnitude; for an infinitely superior account of this chapter of South African history, seek out the documentary "Long Night's Journey Into Day."
- 20The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinAny social good the film might do gets lost in a soupy morass of histrionics, clumsy storytelling, overripe dialogue, and rampant didacticism.