Rabbit-Proof Fence Critic Reviews
Metascore®:
Based upon 11 Critic ReviewsHighest Rated
- |
- Publications (A-Z)
- |
- Critics (A-Z)
- |
- Favorite Critics
A breathtaking story of defiance and triumph that has to be considered one of the year's most sublime films.Read the full review
Searing dramatization of a story of remarkable courage, stamina and spirit.Read the full review
A movie of minimalist moments (Molly's tiniest gestures speak volumes) and lovely, almost holy tableaux.Read the full review
The final scene of the film contains an appearance and a revelation of astonishing emotional power; not since the last shots of "Schindler's List" have I been so overcome with the realization that real people, in recent historical times, had to undergo such inhumanity.Read the full review
At an economical 94 minutes, Rabbit-Proof Fence trims all the fat and tells its heartfelt and stirring story. This is one of 2002's most memorable imports.Read the full review
Noyce honors the story best by standing back (and getting Kenneth Branagh, as a supercilious official, to stand back, too): Noyce lets the landscape and the untrained young actresses own the screen, particularly the naturally magnetic Everlyn Sampi.Read the full review
Where Noyce could easily have given Branagh a mustache and tilted the film toward old-fashioned melodrama, he leans on tactics that are less obvious and more effective.Read the full review
It succeeds emotionally in the cause of what seems to be its primary aim, to advance an attitudinal change in Australians not normally sympathetic to the aboriginal cause.Read the full review
An old-fashioned weepie tucked inside a fiercely indicting political thriller.Read the full review
Although the movie, adapted from a book by Doris Pilkington Garimara, pushes emotional buttons and simplifies its true story to give it the clean narrative sweep of an extended folk ballad, it never goes dramatically overboard.Read the full review
