Reviews

• The serious accusations are leavened by the moments of brimming, illogical, intimate neighborly dailiness the filmmaker also captures with warmth and infectious high spirits.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly
  
  29 November 2012

• As demonstrated in his previous film, a plangent snapshot of subsistence called "Waiting for Happiness," Sissako is a poet, and the filmmaking in this new picture is stuff of a deserving laureate.

  Wesley Morris - The Boston Globe
  
  29 November 2012

• Bamako is something different: a work of cool intelligence and profound anger, a long, dense, argument that is also a haunting visual poem.

  A.O. Scott - The New York Times
  
  29 November 2012

• Sissako has an unusual camera eye, patient and alert to the ebb and flow of both the courtroom sequences and the outside scenes. The music is wonderful as well.

  Michael Phillips - The Chicago Tribune
  
  29 November 2012

• Bamako is an attack on globalization that is endlessly cogent, confrontational -- and, best of all, as captivating as it is illuminating.

  Kevin Thomas - Los Angeles Times
  
  29 November 2012