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Metascore
Generally Favorable
positive
17(81%)
mixed
4(19%)
negative
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Showing 21 Critic Reviews
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Dumont's cinematic style is aggressively physical and philosophical at the same time. It irritates as many viewers as it inspires, but it prompts more thought than ordinary movies ever do.
91
A beautiful and compassionate work, at once stark, sensory and spiritually grasping, that challenges us to forgive even the most monstrous sins.
90
A film of stunning impact.
90
Audiences willing to wade knee deep in the muck and mire of the human abyss are advised to seek out Humanité at the local arthouse.
90
You probably won't feel comfortable when Humanité is over, but as you leave the theater you will feel more alive than when you entered.
90
Dumont's film is unfinished in the sense that some paintings are.
90
It's a haunting, hypnotic film that exerts an escalating grip on the heart and the conscience.
88
Staggering, gorgeously ambiguous.
88
Not an easy film and is for those few moviegoers who approach a serious movie almost in the attitude of prayer.
88
A harsh, spellbinding tale.
