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Heading South Review

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4.5

Dave White Profile

… a weirdly double political meaning. Read full review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    73

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  • 100

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    A beautifully written, seamlessly directed film with award-worthy performances by Ms. Rampling and Ms. Young.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    Variety

    Cantet's anticipated follow-up to "Time Out" supplants that pic's important issues with unexamined attitudes toward sex and the tropics.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

    Lonely, bitter, insecure and clearly unstable, the women are meant to level the emotional playing field and add depth to what is, at heart, a story about the exploitation of poor nations by rich and powerful ones. But they wind up being too bitter and unstable to elicit much sympathy.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett

    Cantet keeps a lid on a story that he could have easily exploited, but he makes his points about beauty, fulfillment, self-indulgence and delusion with a measured hand.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    Laurent Cantet's fascinating, troubling drama has many meanings.

  • 91

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    A pleasurably unsettling, sunbaked tale of sex and politics set in late-1970s Haiti.

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