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Tom Long, Detroit News: It's one of those movies where questions like "Why didn't they do that?" or "Wait, what's their relationship?" keep popping up. And for the most part, those questions never get answered. Read more
William Goss, Film.com: A maddening movie that gives the viewer plenty to think about, but little to care about. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: A striking film filled with images that sometimes reveal their full meaning only when their beauty curdles in the chain of signification. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: The chief pleasure of Claire Denis' work is that it's incomplete, at least in the sense that the audience has to be engaged in completing it. Read more
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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This haunting drama by Claire Denis burns with a mute fear and rage at the ongoing atrocities in central Africa. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Its dramatic vexations are at war with Denis' prodigious visual skill. And the fight, ultimately, rewards the viewer. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: An intense, mysterious drama exploring revolution and loss. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Simultaneously poetic, dramatic and realistic, "White Material" is an altogether stunning work. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A poignant, haunting study of well-intentioned but doomed folly, embodied by a heroine whose bravery renders her blind to the world that is crumbling around her. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: 'White Material" unites France's most precious actress, Isabelle Huppert, with one of that nation's leading directors, Claire Denis. The result is as impressive as one would expect. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: A mournful, frightening, powerful film. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is a beautiful, puzzling film. The enigmatic quality of Huppert's performance draws us in. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: It's a disorientingly beautiful movie at times, which promises -- as Denis always does, I think -- that human madness and human love will balance each other out, in the fullness of time. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Enigmatic, elliptical but visually powerful, Claire Denis' film plays chronological hopscotch with events. Read more
Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: White Material is unhurried in its storytelling but unshakable in its impact. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: A mesmerising portrait of civil war, racial tension and one woman's resistance to change in an unnamed, French-speaking African country. Read more
Jay Weissberg, Variety: A powerful recognition of the continent's tragic present that focuses on a white plantation owner desperate to hold on to her land, despite roving militias and child soldiers. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: [Claire Denis's] tense, convulsive White Material is a portrait of change and a thing of terrible beauty. Read more