Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
A. O. ScottCampaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.
A. O. ScottThe camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.
A. O. ScottNot just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.
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