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A moseying tour of life on the Lakota reservation, circa right now: the empty beauty of the badlands, the ancient struggle with alcohol, and the persistent push of youth to make good and make sense of a bad old world that somehow keeps hope alive. Apr 7, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A moseying tour of life on the Lakota reservation, circa right now: the empty beauty of the badlands, the ancient struggle with alcohol, and the persistent push of youth to make good and make sense of a bad old world that somehow keeps hope alive.
Matthew Lickona
The slow-paced film includes all the expected social themes - drinking, poverty, broken families. Where Zhao excels is in the range of emotions she gets from a mostly nonprofessional cast. Mar 3, 2016 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The slow-paced film includes all the expected social themes - drinking, poverty, broken families. Where Zhao excels is in the range of emotions she gets from a mostly nonprofessional cast.
Farran Smith Nehme
The restrained performances and luscious location photography are enough to make this a film worth exploring, though it might not be a bad idea to down a few caffeine-rich drinks before settling in to watch. Mar 2, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The restrained performances and luscious location photography are enough to make this a film worth exploring, though it might not be a bad idea to down a few caffeine-rich drinks before settling in to watch.
Jordan Hoffman
An earnest, smartly mounted film about life on a present-day reservation. Mar 2, 2016 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
An earnest, smartly mounted film about life on a present-day reservation.
Godfrey Cheshire
Viewers will be torn between admiring its laid-back naturalism and wishing it possessed just a little more oomph. Mar 2, 2016 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Viewers will be torn between admiring its laid-back naturalism and wishing it possessed just a little more oomph.
Mike D'Angelo
Because her laissez-faire approach makes little effort to fit the fragmentary scenes into a tidy portrait of reservation life, "Songs My Brothers Taught Me" feels more authentic than if she had chosen to impose a tighter structure. Mar 1, 2016 | Full Review…
Because her laissez-faire approach makes little effort to fit the fragmentary scenes into a tidy portrait of reservation life, "Songs My Brothers Taught Me" feels more authentic than if she had chosen to impose a tighter structure.
Stephen Holden
Zhao, a first time filmmaker, patiently observes these conundrums rather than passing judgment, and her stellar cast of non-professional actors delivers a great ensemble performance. Nov 3, 2018 | Full Review…
Zhao, a first time filmmaker, patiently observes these conundrums rather than passing judgment, and her stellar cast of non-professional actors delivers a great ensemble performance.
Glenn Heath Jr.
... shows the potential indie cinema still holds to offer an alternative vision of our country. Feb 14, 2018 | Full Review…
... shows the potential indie cinema still holds to offer an alternative vision of our country.
Steve Erickson
Chloé Zhao's directorial debut Songs My Brothers Taught Me is a quiet, sensitive indigenous coming-of-age story set as high school graduation nears on the Pine Ridge Reserve. Aug 14, 2017 | Full Review…
Chloé Zhao's directorial debut Songs My Brothers Taught Me is a quiet, sensitive indigenous coming-of-age story set as high school graduation nears on the Pine Ridge Reserve.
Alex Heeney
In Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Zhao and her team have created an emotionally compelling neo-realist portrait of a family and their community experiencing the stresses and pressures of post-colonial life. Nov 10, 2016 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
In Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Zhao and her team have created an emotionally compelling neo-realist portrait of a family and their community experiencing the stresses and pressures of post-colonial life.
N. A. Cordova
An outsider looking in voyeurism veering offensively close to being more about the filmmaker's fixation on her immigrant alienation - if not a blatant exotic poverty porn aesthetic - than the brutal internal isolation of her subjects absent of causality. Mar 26, 2016 | Full Review…
An outsider looking in voyeurism veering offensively close to being more about the filmmaker's fixation on her immigrant alienation - if not a blatant exotic poverty porn aesthetic - than the brutal internal isolation of her subjects absent of causality.
Prairie Miller
Zhao's film is imperfect, but it's a heartfelt and gorgeous one with a very timely story at its core. Mar 12, 2016 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Zhao's film is imperfect, but it's a heartfelt and gorgeous one with a very timely story at its core.
Allyson Johnson
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