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Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Ballast inexorably grows and deepens and gathers power and absorbs us. I always say I hardly ever cry at sad films, but I sometimes do, just a little, at films about good people.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites

This is the most significant feature about poor black life since Charles Burnett's 1977 "Killer of Sheep."Read the full review

Variety | Robert KoehlerAdd Critic to Favorites

A rock-ribbed sense of committed, personal cinema and a core belief in people being able to pull themselves out of misery supports Ballast, an extraordinary debut by editor-writer-director Lance Hammer.Read the full review

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