It hammers and hammers towards making a point by giving us a tour of explicit pain and struggle without any subtlety.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 21, 2024

The powerful, haunting story of a 12-year-old living in a Beirut slum who sues his parents for neglect.

| Aug 18, 2022

In the end, Capernaum may be hard to watch for some, easy to admire for many, but Labaki’s sad and tender film has the devastating power of a wrecking ball that can’t be denied, that leaves an indomitable mark that can’t be shaken, with staggering impact

| Original Score: 4.5 | Aug 17, 2022

Desperately moving and, at times, difficult to watch, Nadine Labaki's Capernaum is resolutely unflinching in its depiction of Lebanon's forgotten children..,.

| Oct 26, 2021

It's one of the year's best and most meaningful films. It is essential cinema.

| Oct 26, 2021

Nadine Labiki has created a real-life Dickensian drama with performances of breathtaking naturalism.

| Oct 26, 2021

Labaki's documentary-like filmmaking reinforces Capernaum's realism, and the result is a painfully raw drama that will stay with you long after the credits roll.

| Oct 26, 2021

Episode 30: Capernaum / The Red Riding Trilogy / High Flying Bird

| Original Score: 50/100 | Sep 9, 2021

Capernaum is saturated with ... urgent and angry energy.

| Feb 9, 2021

It's hard not to be impressed by Zain al-Rafeea's incredible performance and it's a great film to put on if you need a good cry.

| Feb 3, 2021

With extraordinary performances, we walk in the shoes of the many, understanding the need for humanity, compassion, and identity.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Nov 14, 2020

It's a stone-cold masterpiece.

| Oct 28, 2020

As heartbreaking as this is, Labaki and her co-writers avoid sentimentalizing dire situations, instead occasionally finding humor and lovely tender moments.

| Oct 19, 2020

With or without some manipulation, the movie makes us think about transcendental issues like child labor, abortion, and the refugee crisis [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 19, 2020

One of the best of the foreign language films for 2018.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 4, 2020

Aided by the suffocating cinematography and a documentary-style narrative approach, the film racks up misery by the minute, capturing the plight of hundreds of undocumented children.

| Aug 10, 2020

Capernaum is a difficult movie to watch. The levels of economic hardship, want and degradation are extreme. Labaki's camera is unflinching.

| Aug 5, 2020

In the world of Capernaum, the impoverished aren't developed. They're siphons for tragedy, wading through a script that grasps for discrepancies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2020

It is made with a dramatic pulsation, close to the documentary, which in few scenes abandons social realism when it addresses the vicissitudes of the street children. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 27, 2020

It really all hinges on the performance, but the way Nadine Labaki has shot certain segments really adds to it...

| May 22, 2020