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What a simple and yet profound story this is.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

It grabs you from a symbolic opening scene of gang members rolling the dice -- the odds, it soon becomes clear, are stacked against them getting lucky -- and never lets go.Full Review

Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle

Brutal but believable, the film in some ways harks back to early Hollywood, when Jimmy Cagney or Richard Widmark played callow villains out of their depth in everyday life.Full Review

Ray Bennett
The Hollywood Reporter

As Tsotsi, Chweneyagae turns his face into a living battle mask -- curved, molded and sandpapered into smooth ruthlessness. But as the story unfolds, Tsotsi's mask begins to crack, and his humanity begins to flow through.Full Review

Desson Thomson
Washington Post

It's a solid, earnest drama of moral redemption that places old cliches in an unfamiliar setting.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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