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May 17, 2024
100
The film is an indictment of law enforcement as it operates (or doesn’t) for aboriginal people.
Feb 24, 2023
90
Led by an almost unrecognizable Simon Baker as a jaded cop, Limbo weaves in themes of racial inequity, broken individuals and fractured families to build quiet potency.
Mar 19, 2024
88
Limbo is entirely engrossing as it brings its discomfiting points home.
Feb 24, 2023
80
It is a tough, muscular film with the grit of crime, but a heartbeat of compassion.
Feb 24, 2023
80
It’s a distinctive work, both visually – the stark black and white photography accentuates the uncanny, almost lunar pockmarks on this scarred terrain – and in terms of its intriguingly detached outback noir storytelling.
Feb 24, 2023
80
Limbo joins a long line of fine Australian films taking to the desert to disinter racial trauma, to rebury the bones with more care and awareness, but also enduring fury.
May 17, 2023
80
The cast, in weather-beaten and woebegone mode, are uniformly excellent, directed by Sen in beautiful unison, their performances different notes in the same melody.
Mar 22, 2024
80
Come for the cold case, stay for a couple of remarkably lived-in performances from Simon Baker and Natasha Wanganeen.
Mar 19, 2024
75
The cinematography solidifies the film’s status as a noir grappling with corruption and probing moral grey areas, while at the same time echoing visually the stark divisions between white and Indigenous people in Australian society.