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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneThis is an amazing movie, released at a frightening time and made under remarkable circumstances.
- 80Film ThreatRich ClineFilm ThreatRich ClineThe film has a riveting central narrative, the performances are compelling and, most of all, we need to hear more immigration stories like this.
- 80Dallas ObserverJean OppenheimerDallas ObserverJean OppenheimerThe charismatic Jamal has the spirit of a young Antoine Doinel, and Winterbottom shoots him to evoke the memory of Truffaut's young hero.
- 80L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorThe movie's staccato pacing, lent emphasis by Dario Marianelli's haunting score, evokes the cycles of tedium and terror that make the journey so unnerving.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranWhat we are seeing may be a representation of the truth, but it is not real, and this collision of artifice and reality is jarring and disconcerting. This is a hurdle but not an insurmountable one. Even if it is counterfeit in a number of ways, the story In This World tells finally wins us over because it is too disturbing and well told not to.
- 80The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensIf there is heartbreak in this movie, there is also a sense of energy that makes it almost exhilarating.
- 70The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneBritish director Michael Winterbottom has made his best and most driven picture to date. [22 September 2003, p. 202]
- 70The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsHas a message, which it effectively conveys by succeeding first as an affecting film. Winterbottom's actors give a human face to current events as they proceed along their grim road-movie toward a destination that may not even want them. They may be statistics, too, but their stories stick in the mind.
- 70Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonWinterbottom was set on bare-bones realism, and so the scalding lyricism of ferocious terrain and sociopolitical absurdity seen in, say, "Kandahar" or "A Time for Drunken Horses," is never resourced.
- 60VarietyDerek ElleyVarietyDerek ElleyMakes engrossing viewing for much of the way...but stumbles dramatically in its final leg.