A frightening, almost unbearable look at the disintegration of Haitian society during the year former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide lost power.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 8, 2020

Action is mostly repetitive monologues about their power and dreams of rap stardom. Almost no one else speaks.

| Aug 7, 2018

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Packs an emotional punch, but that only partly makes up for the lack of a good story

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 26, 2008

Besides anti-Aristide diatribes mouthed a little too much on cue by these hooligans, there's also a French female relief worker mostly providing sexual relief to a gabby gangster. Not to mention 'relief worker' often as Third World code word for CIA spy.

| Nov 22, 2007

Ghosts of Cite Soleil is a curiously unfocused, rambling film that never really settles on exactly what it wants to say or exactly which stories it wants to tell.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 31, 2007

Leth ... gets us so close to life in Cité Soleil that we practically can hear the bullets and smell the garbage.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 31, 2007

There's an immediacy to Ghosts of the Cite Soleil that's exceedingly rare for a documentary of any stripe.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 24, 2007

Ghosts of Cite Soleil is too brief and limited in scope to provide a complete picture of Haiti's turbulent history, but its images of how so many of its citizens live and die on a daily basis -- is both heartbreaking and unforgettable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2007

More horrific than any tale from the crypt Hollywood could conceive.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 10, 2007

Dutch director Leth is so enamored of the ugliness of it all that he doesn't even try to penetrate the noisy bravado that obscures the patches of truth that lie beneath the surface.

| Original Score: D | Aug 9, 2007

The ultra-violence of this microcosm [gang] society is what Ghosts is all about.

| Jul 28, 2007

This flashy looking documentary scored by Haitian singer Wyclef Jean is such a frightening inside look at a poverty stricken society ruled by violence that it is a marvel that it got made.

| Original Score: B | Jul 22, 2007

Goes beyond front-line journalism to show the men behind the guns.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2007

Intimate and terrifying, at points almost expressionistic and surreal, this is never less than a nerve-shredding experience. It even includes an (improbable) love story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2007

Leth shows us the horrendous nature of the period but fails to provide much necessary political analysis, without which it is even more deeply depressing than it might have been.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2007

A garbled account of state-aided terror that sheds little light on these dogs of war.

| Jul 20, 2007

While Leth's guerrilla-style documentary is gripping to watch, it isn't particularly well-structured and constantly loses focus

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2007