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A well-intentioned but melodramatic look at post-Apartheid South Africa.
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It shows what can go wrong when a good-intentioned filmmaker mixes historical tragedy with Hollywood banality. June 9, 2005 | Rating: 3/5
It shows what can go wrong when a good-intentioned filmmaker mixes historical tragedy with Hollywood banality.
Richard Nilsen
Ostensibly about the aftermath of apartheid, but the pain of a people serves only as a backdrop for the most contrived of love stories. April 22, 2005 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Ostensibly about the aftermath of apartheid, but the pain of a people serves only as a backdrop for the most contrived of love stories.
John Monaghan
Is it a docudrama about South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings? Or is it love story? The problem with In My Country is that it tries to be both. April 14, 2005 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
Is it a docudrama about South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings? Or is it love story? The problem with In My Country is that it tries to be both.
Bob Townsend
Black, white and clunky. April 11, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4
Black, white and clunky.
Stephen Cole
Need[s] to be seen, as essential history and as demonstration of a form of social reckoning where compassion triumphs over passion, and the olive branch over the gun. April 8, 2005 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Need[s] to be seen, as essential history and as demonstration of a form of social reckoning where compassion triumphs over passion, and the olive branch over the gun.
Peter Howell
Failing to get beyond trite Hollywood romantic conventions, sermonizing caricatures and 'I was just following orders' explanations does a great disservice to history. April 8, 2005 | Rating: 2/5
Failing to get beyond trite Hollywood romantic conventions, sermonizing caricatures and 'I was just following orders' explanations does a great disservice to history.
Roger Moore
Better than its mangy reputation. April 23, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Better than its mangy reputation.
Matt Brunson
In spite of narrative missteps that negate the possibility of an empathetic protagonist, "In My Country" does viably introduce the African principle of "Ubuntu" whereby evil transgressions are absolved rather than revenged. April 16, 2009 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
In spite of narrative missteps that negate the possibility of an empathetic protagonist, "In My Country" does viably introduce the African principle of "Ubuntu" whereby evil transgressions are absolved rather than revenged.
Cole Smithey
A familiar, superficial lesson. April 22, 2006 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A familiar, superficial lesson.
Jake Euker
Points for trying and all, but this particular chapter of South Africa's history deserves a movie a bit more sincere -- and a lot less corny. July 21, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Points for trying and all, but this particular chapter of South Africa's history deserves a movie a bit more sincere -- and a lot less corny.
Scott Weinberg
Intelligent piece that does its job as entertainment. More importantly, it should advance public knowledge about the apartheid government's human rights violations. June 2, 2005 | Rating: 3/4
Intelligent piece that does its job as entertainment. More importantly, it should advance public knowledge about the apartheid government's human rights violations.
Forrest Hartman
Watching [apartheid victims'] testimony become background noise for Jackson and Binoche's tawdry melodrama is aggravating. May 13, 2005 | Rating: 1.5/4
Watching [apartheid victims'] testimony become background noise for Jackson and Binoche's tawdry melodrama is aggravating.
Sean P. Means
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