Teza Reviews
Top CriticThe herky-jerky quality of the experience, exacerbated by writer-director Gerima's restless editing, makes Anberber's story difficult to follow.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
The film is rough around the edges, and overlong at two hours and 13 minutes. Still, it's an eye-opening portrait of injustice and loss that leaves you drowning in rage and sorrow.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Ultimately rewards the viewer's patience with a potent sense of Ethiopian history and culture.
Both intimate and sprawling in its scope and reach, Teza is a remarkable portrait of the tortured political and social history that Ethiopia suffered in the last decades of the 20th century.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Epic treatment of a good man's return to an African nation torn by hunger and civil war.
He doesn't just reject political, philosophical, sexual, racial and spiritual dogma of every sort. He seems to view dogma itself as the one true evil: the ideological armor of bullies throughout history; the enemy of freedom, of art, of happiness itself.
| Original Score: 3/5
tands as a richly expansive portrait of a man caught between an untenable exile and the terrible consequences of his homeland's violent past.
