The Betrayal - Nerakhoon
Cinema Guild | Release Date: November 21, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleJonathan Curiel
A riveting works of humanism. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
The film is lyrical, expansive, unbearably beautiful. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Self-consciously poetic and shot within a luscious inch of its life, the film's also an engrossing heartbreaker: a family saga that spans continents, political administrations, and decades of travail to arrive at a harder, wiser place. Read full review
80
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Impressionistic and lyrical, as well as somber and gripping, The Betrayal conveys a ceaseless flow. It's as if the filmmaker has opened a window onto a parallel world traveling beside our own. Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
More than anything, The Betrayal is a cinematic essay about family and loss and home, one that's ironic and elegiac in tone and requires some patience. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
A powerful account of how the American dream became a nightmare for one Laotian family. Read full review
70
VarietyScott Foundas
Though an admirable attempt to allow the characters to tell their own story in their own voices, docu may be a bit too freely associative, as it becomes difficult at times to identify individual characters... Picture's second half, which proceeds in a more linear fashion, is resolutely gripping. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
The result is imperfect, but its roughness is entirely consistent with the way the filmmakers understand the traumatic experiences of displacement, loss and deprivation. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesSheri Linden
Exploring a Lao family's experience during and since the Vietnam War, the film chronicles the treacheries of geopolitics and the upheaval of exile. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The past-and-present layering is a lot more resonant -- and less sketchy -- than the film's theme of ''betrayal,'' both familial and governmental. Read full review
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