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As demonstrated in his previous film, a plangent snapshot of subsistence called "Waiting for Happiness," Sissako is a poet, and the filmmaking in this new picture is stuff of a deserving laureate.Full Review

Wesley Morris
Boston Globe

The serious accusations are leavened by the moments of brimming, illogical, intimate neighborly dailiness the filmmaker also captures with warmth and infectious high spirits.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

Bamako is something different: a work of cool intelligence and profound anger, a long, dense, argument that is also a haunting visual poem.Full Review

A.O. Scott
The New York Times

Never mind Hollywood's big-star, big-budget hand-wringing about Africa - Bamako is the real thing.Full Review

Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer

Bamako is an attack on globalization that is endlessly cogent, confrontational -- and, best of all, as captivating as it is illuminating.Full Review

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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