The film - beyond some politically correct concessions - has beauty, sensitivity, and humor even in its denunciation. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 27, 2023

Gulpilil, as the eponymous Charlie, dreams of returning to his people and traditional way of life, setting out on a quest across the unforgiving yet ethereally beautiful bush. He's a joy to watch.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 26, 2020

Charlie's Country is passionate, beautiful and bittersweet as it expresses a poignant tale of vulnerability, rage and sorrow.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2019

David Gulpilil stole my heart with his performance in Charlie's Country, an Australian film that represents Indigenous culture in a way that is not told solely from a white perspective.

| Jan 8, 2019

There are laughs here as well as moments of devastation, thankfully, and genuine joy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2017

Charlie's Country is a deceptively simple film, with very little action and a virtually absent soundtrack-but it's much more than that.

| Jun 20, 2017

This is entirely Gulpilil's show, and even in the simplest, quietest moments he's riveting. It's one of the key performances in any of de Heer's films and, basically, magnificent.

| Aug 10, 2016

The upright art-houser is told in English and Yolngu, with English subtitles, but the message would be clear without any dialogue: Australia is no country for old Aborigine.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2015

It's a beautifully photographed, unrelentingly bleak picture that works as a Rorschach test for the viewer's empathy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2015

Australia offers few sights as sublime as that of David Gulpilil.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 16, 2015

Resonant and powerful.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jun 22, 2015

A series of chapters in noble effort and misadventure alike, all captured with fluid camerawork trained on Gulpilil's every move or his long passages of mesmerizing stillness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 11, 2015

The film gets some of its power from the fact that Charlie's story tracks pretty closely with that of the actor playing him. But just some of its power.

| Jun 10, 2015

David Gulipil is Australia's gift to great film as always--in the latest he is also co-author of the screenplay that renders white injustice vividly, evoking Ferguson, Missouri.

| Jun 7, 2015

Gulpilil's magnificent performance showcases the struggles that has existed between two cultures on the same land in Australia.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2015

A quietly devastating film about the impact of colonialism and paternalism on Australia's indigenous people via one man's very personal journey.

| Jun 5, 2015

Using a combination of bleak realism, fatalistic humor and a healthy dose of sentimentality, Mr. de Heer traces the downward spiral of a man who has become a refugee in his own homeland.

| Jun 4, 2015

The whole film feels not like a call to arms against Australian policies, so much as a study of life adjacent to them.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 4, 2015

Part of the movie's mischievous charm lies in De Heer and cinematographer Ian Jones' sophisticated use of Steadicam, which moves almost exclusively with Charlie, often seemingly in a struggle to keep up with his brisk, determined walk.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 4, 2015

Equal parts ethnographic and poetic, this eloquent drama's stirring soulfulness is laced with the sorrow of cultural dislocation but also with lovely ripples of humor and even joy.

| Jun 1, 2015