In My Country Critic Reviews

Boorman's troubles usually come from going over the top (atop Exorcist II, there's always Zardoz). But this is one of his few misfires that almost anyone would call tepid.Read the full review

There is something not quite right about the film itself.Read the full review

In My Country doesn't so much explore as use the tragedy of black South Africa to give its heroine a righteous slap of nobility.Read the full review

At its best when Anna confronts her tangled Afrikaaner legacy and when it brings the heretical notion of forgiveness up front, where a non-African audience can come to grips with it.Read the full review

Lacks compelling narrative.Read the full review

Boorman's stars Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson are valiant - even impressive - but they cannot rescue this grueling film or its mechanical plot.Read the full review

The charisma and hard work by his two leads allows Boorman to succeed beyond all expectations.Read the full review

High-minded but hopelessly wooden film.Read the full review

An unquestionably sincere but dramatically stillborn outing by veteran John Boorman.Read the full review