The confident direction and strong performances ensure it is an absorbing experience, and the beautiful final shot ends the film on a haunting note.
Xavier Beauvois's Cannes winner is a spellbinder drama about courage and faith and a fascinating take on global extremism.
Acted with powerful understatement by its ensemble cast, Of Gods and Men is also masterfully photographed by cinematographer Caroline Champetier.
A poignant ensemble piece about faith and purpose.
It is not often we are swept up, even exalted, by earnest simplicity.
A very human, extremely moving tale.
Handsome, deliberately paced drama.
Beautifully acted by its ensemble cast.
It is a celebration of spiritual humility in the face of earthly contingency, and its expressive humanity can hardly fail to move.
It’s a grave and thoughtful film, and certainly not a bad one, for all my twinges of scepticism about how deep its insights really go.
Of Gods and Men strives for simplicity; cinema is usually about dynamism, attraction, ego, but this movie concerns the renunciation of these things, in art and life.
A thought-provoking film based on true events.
A remarkable tale of bravery, tolerance and self-sacrifice.
This is commanding, immensely satisfying and unusually grown-up cinema.
A heartfelt parable.
The unlikeliest box-office hit: a film about doomed French monks
Faith accompli
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