Araby
Grasshopper Film | Release Date: June 22, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
82
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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80
Film Journal InternationalBudd WilkinsJun 21, 2018
Araby stays so grounded in acutely observed behavior, while still sufficiently elliptical in its storytelling methods, that it successfully avoids getting up on any particular soapbox. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleAug 9, 2018
A migrant worker’s journal opens up a world for a disaffected teenager, and us, in Araby, a beautifully turned Brazilian movie that carries on as if a social-cause documentary and a folk song confessional had entered into a poignant embrace. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineJames LattimerJun 5, 2018
A carefree life on the move is steadily and exquisitely overtaken by melancholy in writer-directors João Dumans and Affonso Uchoa’s Arábia, the portrait of a meandering journey fueled by song, anecdote, and landscape that zeroes in on the pressures of contemporary Brazil almost in passing. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJun 19, 2018
The film is far less than the sum of its possibilities. Read full review
91
The Film StageLeonardo GoiJul 16, 2018
Judiciously gritty in its specifics, Araby’s scope is ecumenical. Read full review
100
The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungJun 5, 2018
An intriguingly structured, multilayered road movie in which an ordinary working-class dude looks back over a nation-wandering decade of his life, this second collaboration by the writer-directors is a cumulatively engrossing and ultimately very moving work of clear-eyed political intent. Read full review
80
The New York TimesGlenn KennyJun 21, 2018
Thanks to Mr. de Sousa’s superb performance, the movie often convincingly portrays not just the exploited condition of laborers such as Cristiano, but the nagging sadness of life itself. Read full review
70
Village VoiceMatt PriggeJun 21, 2018
A soundtrack of folk/country classics takes the edge off, but make no mistake: This is a beautiful bummer, giving voice to someone who’s barely a number, but only to remind us that most of us are OK not thinking about numbers at all. Read full review
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