5.0
out of 100
Metascore®Universal acclaim Based on a weighted average of all critic review scores.
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The serious accusations are leavened by the moments of brimming, illogical, intimate neighborly dailiness the filmmaker also captures with warmth and infectious high spirits.
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Bamako is something different: a work of cool intelligence and profound anger, a long, dense, argument that is also a haunting visual poem.
Rather miraculously, picture succeeds in painlessly educating its viewers about global politics and economics while it describes contemporary Africa with freshness and clarity.
Bamako is an attack on globalization that is endlessly cogent, confrontational -- and, best of all, as captivating as it is illuminating.
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You can't accuse it of being dull.
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