Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Kino Lorber | Release Date: December 11, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The PlaylistOliver LytteltonDec 17, 2015
For all the film’s politics, Arabian Nights can also be whimsical, swooningly romantic, inspiring, fascinating, or deeply sad. Read full review
100
CineVueBen NicholsonDec 14, 2015
Arabian Nights may frustrate and enervate, but with hindsight these blemishes fade into a gleaming collage. Read full review
100
Village VoiceCalum MarshDec 1, 2015
The stories have an almost dreamlike sweep and imaginative energy, and the film never exhausts that exuberance. More extraordinary still is its emotional depth. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comScout TafoyaDec 11, 2015
The melancholy that falls over this chapter is hard to shake but its tempered slightly by the love Gomes has for his characters, bad habits, ingrained sadness and all. Read full review
80
Total FilmJamie GrahamDec 21, 2016
Volumes one and two are especially captivating, as Gomes himself appears onscreen to tell of how he charged a team of researchers with scouring Portugal in search of tales. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorJan 21, 2016
Gomes believes we should all take responsibility for one another and sees austerity as a government abrogation of social duty that ultimately turns citizen against citizen. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyDec 3, 2015
Arabian Nights’ off-the-cuff, community-theater vibe ends up underlining its origins as a creative reaction to social and economic crisis. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottDec 3, 2015
It is worth sticking with it until the end, since the third part is the most powerful. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineClayton DillardSep 22, 2015
It forays into satirical terrain in order to elide actual dealings with the problems at hand, so that each piece feels alternatively frivolous and weighty. Read full review
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