Fresh
Director Abderrahmane Sissako, a Muslim from neighboring Mauritania, has made a movie that is worthy of comparisons on several levels to Terrence Malick's wheat-field tragedy "Days of Heaven."
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Overview
Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The performances are hushed and memorable. Cinematographer Sofian El Fanicaptures the beauty of this desert land. Amine Bouhafa's score is its own act of gorgeous grace and defiance.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Fresh
Even though the atrocities committed by radical jihadists dominate the headlines and airwaves, few in the West know what it's like to live under their reign. Timbuktu...is a moving, haunting and beautifully shot peek behind the closed cultural curtain.
Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Fresh
This is the clash of ancient and modern, of rulers and ruled, of rabid dogma and the joys of daily life. It is a portrait of the ugly folly of imposed ideology, a too-common condition for far too many.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
A transcendent political poem as intellectually rigorous as it is beautiful.
Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer
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