It is rewarding unlike any other film I've seen.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jan 15, 2005

That Winterbotton was able to pull this venture off at all is remarkable.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2004

...an odd hybrid of fiction and non-fiction, featuring a cast comprised mostly of amateur actors.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 27, 2004

Your heart will go out to [the characters], especially if your family made an arduous effort to reach America among the waves of immigrants over the last 130 years.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 9, 2004

Ferociously stakes a claim to the hearts, and minds, of viewers fortunate enough to see it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 9, 2004

I'd like for some brave soul to sneak a copy [into the White House], just to bring a slap of reality to the residents of the presidential plastic bubble.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 7, 2004

It will definitely cause you to stop, consider and appreciate your life far more than you did yesterday.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2004

By keeping his focus small and personal, director Michael Winterbottom completely immerses a viewer in Jamal and Enayat's experience. It's quite devastating.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 5, 2004

Puts something like a personal face on what is so often rendered merely as an abstract statistic: the plight of the contemporary refugee in a violently 'globalized' world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2004

Although the story told is of vital importance, the manner of the telling robs us of the appropriate emotional response.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 5, 2004

It's a stirring work of advocacy.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 2, 2004

It's a brave new world, and Michael Winterbottom's brave new film is like a postcard from the heart of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 19, 2004

Michael Winterbottom puts a human face on a harrowing story in In This World, but you'll wish you had more.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 5, 2004

The film's intellectual dishonesty begins almost immediately.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 2, 2004

I had to keep reminding myself, during the course of "In This World," that I was watching a fictional film, not a chronicle of real events.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 10, 2003

I wouldn't want to argue politics with Winterbottom... but his realistic depiction of Jamal's journey mostly transcends politics.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 5, 2003

In This World may be the work of a liberal, but anyone of humanity must give pause to the horrors faced by those unlucky enough to be born in unfortunate circumstances

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 4, 2003

Alguns filmes possuem maior importncia poltica do que artstica. o caso deste longa.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2003

Downbeat but surprisingly moving drama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 31, 2003

Without an ounce of phony Hollywood uplift, Winterbottom's film cuts right to the heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 23, 2003