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War Witch (2012)

Metacritic reviews

War Witch

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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
  • 91
    The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
    The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
    War Witch is a remarkably mature portrait that trusts its audience to have their own reactions to its material; it doesn’t yank at the heartstrings so much as expertly strum them.
  • 91
    The Playlist
    The Playlist
    Blending a surrealist perspective of battle-tinged faith with the harrowing tale of one girl's resilience, the film is a laser-focused fable threatened occasionally by its drifts into character shorthand, but equaled by a wrenching lead performance by Rachel Mwanza that results in one of the finest of the year.
  • 90
    The New York TimesStephen Holden
    The New York TimesStephen Holden
    Superstition, witchcraft, exorcism, talismans that ward off evil: in this land of the supernatural, irrationality prevails. But War Witch is so cleareyed that it makes you wonder how much more irrational this world is than the so-called civilized one under its camouflage of material wealth.
  • 83
    Film.comJordan Hoffman
    Film.comJordan Hoffman
    It does a marvelous job at giving us an impressionistic taste of horrific circumstances without using them to beat us into submission.
  • 80
    VarietyLeslie Felperin
    VarietyLeslie Felperin
    Along with the moral lesson, Nguyen remembers to give auds some pleasures, including the exquisitely chosen soundtrack of African folk and pop music, Nicolas Bolduc's cinematography and the very artful use of sound throughout.
  • 80
    Time Out
    Time Out
    The film’s subject is almost too horrible to contemplate, but it finds a way to space out the blows without softening them.
  • 80
    Village Voice
    Village Voice
    Nguyen's matter-of-fact storytelling proves to be the right match for a life of extraordinary suffering. In art, lives like Komona's are all too often given an alien sheen. Here, they feel unnervingly plausible.
  • 75
    The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    So is this a Western take on Africa? Yes, but Rebelle is full of such careful detail, and is carried so beautifully by Mwanza’s performance, that questions of authenticity slide away.
  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter
    The Hollywood Reporter
    Managing to be neither sentimental nor sensationalistic, the film tells its story from the heart, and from the simple, straightforward viewpoint of young heroine Komona, warmly played by the talented Rachel Mwanza in her screen debut.
  • 50
    Slant MagazineCalum Marsh
    Slant MagazineCalum Marsh
    Though ostensibly a character study, it's nevertheless characterized by the vaguely moralizing tone of an issue film, one whose candor in the face of brutality seems calculated for maximum liberal appeal.
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