Capernaum currently has an average rating of 8.3 out of 10 and has been rated by 432 users on our platform.
...a picaresque journey through Beirut streets, shot through with harsh realities and touching tenderness.
Read full review at EmpireWauw! How to break every patent's heart in the world in about 2 hours! One of the most social tealistic movies I have ever seen.
...a crazily ambitious, heart-in-mouth neorealist version of Baby’s Day Out
Read full review at The TelegraphNewcomer Al Rafeea is superb as Zain; Yordanos Shiferaw is sympathetic as an undocumented immigrant who befriends him.
Co-writer (and well-known Lebanese actress) Nadine Labaki's direction is extremely effective.
Rafeea, a non-professional actor and Syrian refugee, is the film’s secret weapon (...) his strange, fascinating, eerily adult face offers a litany of minute expressions.
Read full review at The Guardian...for all of its brutal, raw force, Labaki’s excellent film is tough sledding — a sucker punch that lands with the emotional force of Dickens relocated to the slums of the modern-day Middle East. It leaves a bruise.
Read full review at Entertainment WeeklyThere is an undeniable neorealist quality to Labaki’s work, bringing to mind not only the first half of Garth Davis’ "Lion," but also the likes of Vittorio De Sica’s "Shoeshine" and Sean Baker’s "The Florida Project"...
Read full review at Roger EbertCapernaum is both pointedly brutal and brutally pointed.
Read full review at The Austin ChronicleMindblowing scenario. Great script. Amazing acting from real life humans delivering heavenly feelings. Director needs tribute for making this come to life on the screen.One of those movies that is life transforming by its pure nature of content. N...
...Labacki’s sad and tender film has the devastating power of a wrecking ball that can’t be denied, that leaves an indomitable mark that can’t be shaken, with staggering impact.
Read full review at Ready Steady CutMed fantastiskt barnskådespel berättar ”Kapernaum” en berörande historia om förlorad barndom.
Read full review at FilmtoppNadine Labaki piskar inte upp någon indignation, tar inte tårvägen till vår empati. Berättar rakt upp och ner. Litar på sitt material. Sånt imponerar.
Read full review at Svt KulturnyheternaZain Al Rafeea er et mirakel som Zain, og hans præstation skriver sig ind i filmhistorien som en af de mest mindeværdige barneskuespillerpræstationer nogensinde...
Read full review at SoundvenueDet är imponerande att komma så nära och berätta en så pass uttänkt historia med bara amatörer, med ett spädbarn i en av huvudrollerna och en tolvårig gatpojke som inte kunde skriva sitt eget namn i den andra.
Read full review at Dagens NyheterKapernaum' er ikke kun en rystende 'dokumentarisk' film – men først og fremmest en menneskelig fortælling, hudløs ægte og nærværende i hvert smerteligt nærbillede af svigt, savn og vanrøgt.
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