The Last King of Scotland

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San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe SteinAdd Critic to Favorites

Unlike Sean Penn's demagogue in "All the King's Men," you're able to forget that Whitaker is acting. He embodies the role. When clips of the real Amin are shown at the end, it's almost shocking to realize the extent to which Whitaker has become him.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

Drawing on a documentary visual style he deftly employed in "One Day in September" and "Touching the Void," director Kevin Macdonald uses McAvoy's boyishness to treat Garrigan's apolitical foolishness as yet another damn mess in one African country's hell.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Carina ChocanoAdd Critic to Favorites

Captures the energy and exuberance of a young nation in the throes of optimism and works it into a foreboding frenzy.Read the full review

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