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"SWEET LAND is a movie of extraordinary tenderness, in which Reaser and Guinee, using a language of looks, make you happy to think about what love once might have been. -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly "[With a] guileless, heartfelt style....SWEET LAND celebrates a gutsy, old-fashioned sort of love, one born of backbreaking work and shared difficulties."New York Times "[S]exy and insightful about physical desire....[The film] will please moviegoers yearning for well told, wholesome but not necessarily prudish fare."Box Office Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Films Of The Year" -- "[T]ouching chords of collective memory about love, ancestry, and the American immigrant dream."Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[T]his labor of love seems influenced by Terence Malick's DAYS OF HEAVEN in all the right ways."New York Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "Understated is an understatement in director Ali Selim's debut....This period dream of austere farm life is just sweet enough."Empire13.74076
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"...The early bouts here -- the ones you don't often see footage from -- are represented in film clips....[The interviewees] turn out to be terrific in their reflections..." USA Today12.52929
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Rolling Stone (p.125) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "US sounds great, with Ali's sensitive, stentorian voice plowing through sleek jazz and blues loops from producer Ant."Spin (p.74) - "For him, hip-hop means fighting for justice, and as Chuck D attests in US' introduction, Ali is a 'soldier in the war for love.'"Billboard (p.37) - "What gives Brother Ali's slice-of-life ruminations their impressive heft is the rapper's eye for everyday detail and the handmade appeal of his vintage-funk arrangements."11.11332
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Q (2/02, p.118) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...This soul-slanted set offers 2 new songs from R.Kelly plus the spiritied 'Fight' from Alicia Keys..."10.96339
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Entertainment Weekly (p.69) - "Here, he plays exquisitely languid grooves with a Malian ensemble including multiple n'goni harps and singers, while the occasional harmonica and sax float by, sounding entirely at home." -- Grade: AQ (p.117) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T] 13 tracks showcase his laid-back, if jerky take on the blues, detouring into multi-voiced African folk..and scratchy minimalist reggae....This is stirring stuff."Global Rhythm (Publication) (p.42) - Ranked #1 in Global Rhythm's "Top 10 Albums Of 2006" -- "[W]ith plaintive background singers answering Toure's booming voice and hand percussion..."Q (Magazine) (p.153) - "[The album] exerts a magnetic hold, from the compelling dry, percussive strumming that opens 'Erdi' to 'Yer Bounda Fara''s powerful blues..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Toure digs deeper....This is how to remember Toure, forever at ease and doing it his own way, in his own time."10.96339
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CMJ (5/1/00, p.32) - "...A unique and suprisingly danceable blend...of contemporary world [and] dance fusion..."10.96339
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"...Driven by [Fassbinder's] usual fervor and honesty. There's a sense that he was working fast, through a compellingly personal inspiration, and that gives the film a rare vitality..." Los Angeles Times "...The film is powerful but very simple....In ALI, there is a startling tenderness..." Chicago Sun-Times "...While it's certainly Fassbinder at his most tender and compassionate, his devastating use of color and startlingly distancing mise-en-scene are in full effect..." Film Comment8.930023
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"[I]ntensely moving...the film also functions as a series of 10 mini-biographies with common threads, and a powerful collective commentary on what it means to be a fighter." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club8.823215
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Alternative Press (2/00, p.94) - 4 out of 5 - "...With only his voice and acoustic guitar, Toure performs in a timeless and hypnotic fashion....his deep, bluesy picking and emphatic singing that capture his soul's essence..."Mojo (Publisher) (6/96, p.113) - "...These hypnotic performances - sometimes accompanied solely by a simple acoustic guitar, sometimes by ngoni and violin - established [Toure's] reputation in Africa and they still have the power to take the breath away."8.770712
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.51) - Ranked #49 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2010" -- "[A] thing of exquisite shimmering beauty from start to finish."Uncut (magazine) - "'Be Mankan' is a stately, almost classical piece for kora, as is the more nimble 'Fantasy.' 'Doudou' is a trance-out on which the two sets of strings gallop together..."Uncut (magazine) (p.37) - Ranked #8 in Uncut's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2010" -- "[T]he sense remained of two intuitive virtuosos coming together, without ego."8.770712
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