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Burning Sands Reviews
Burning Sands is a well made, thought provoking film filled with subtleties and a compelling story that, like any good film, leaves us with questions, and challenges us to think about the repercussions of our actions.
| Aug 14, 2017
Burning Sands is a riveting assessment of freedom, compassion and what it means to think critically about the circumstances you may find yourself in.
| Apr 6, 2017
You definitely come away from the experience with very mixed feelings about what you've seen and how it was presented, which feels just about right for a story like this one.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2017
There's a lingering pain as the credits roll, a reminder of the misconception that to be a real man, one must endure physical and mental pain inflicted by other men, similarly misunderstanding true masculinity.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2017
Viewed as a cautionary tale about the dangers of hazing, Burning Sands dutifully does its job. As hard-hitting sociopolitical commentary, it falls short.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2017
There's something powerful even in its predictability-will things go too far? Does the Pope wear a pointy hat?-and in Jackson's fierce, quietly forceful performance.
| Original Score: B | Mar 9, 2017
In the absence of a more dramatically dynamic approach to that awfully familiar subject matter, "Burning Sands" proves neither as incendiary nor as challenging as intended.
| Mar 9, 2017
The message Burning Sands imparts about hazing's solidarity-through-sadism ethos is slyly multifaceted.
| Mar 8, 2017
Gerard McMurray's drama has more ambition than last year's hazing drama [Goat], as well as interesting racial undertones that the other film did not.
| Jan 26, 2017
The occasional heavy-handed or clumsy elements don't seriously impair a film whose high spirits, talented cast and luridly intriguing subject consistently entertain, even if they seldom truly surprise.
| Jan 25, 2017
A workmanlike but unavoidably predictable yarn about the perils of college fraternity hazing.
| Jan 25, 2017