Welcome to Sarajevo
Miramax Films | Release Date: November 26, 1997 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
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Generally favorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
18
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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60
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
Yet this film, for all its apparent immediacy, winds up less affecting than a more poetic or roundabout approach might be. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
But bearing witness can be a complex thing and in its concern to illuminate Sarajevo is prone to overkill, to trying too hard to squeeze in every troubling wartime incident. Read full review
60
VarietyDerek Elley
The film's persistent skimming from one vantage point to another, with no dominant dramatic line until midway through, will unsettle audiences expecting a more regular construction and something on which to hook their emotions over the long term. Read full review
60
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
The war is not scanted: the devastation and butchery are there. But the screenplay by Frank Cottell Boyce, based on a non-fiction account by Michael Nicholson, is thin, sentimental. [29Dec1997 Pg. 28]
50
Chicago ReaderMatt Roth
It keeps the gag quotient lower than Reds but has a similar effect: more urgent in its desire to make us care about the events it depicts, it nonetheless reduces the war in Bosnia to mere scenery for the hackneyed journey of a world-weary journalist from cynicism to caring activism. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The problem is that Winterbottom has imagined both stories and several others, and tells them in a style designed to feel as if reality has been caught on the fly. Read full review
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