It is one of only a handful of films where I have, quite literally, forgotten that it is a foreign film.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

Artfully combining and complimenting with each other the story and technical aspects of the film, the results are an unparalleled synergistic relationship, seamlessly interweaving the film's ever increasing message of hope and redemption.

| Nov 9, 2019

The audience gasps in that odd mixture of surprise and recognition that great story-telling affords.

| Jan 16, 2018

It's a redemption song that could be stripped down into a Hallmark-esque distillation of "City of God." Instead, it retains a minor key, with bullets, blood and beatings illustrating a descent into dangerous living while a baby's presence suggests hope.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 7, 2010

Fraudulent, patronizing, and empty

| Aug 30, 2009

Gavin Hood's Oscar-nominated tale about a young South African gangster who gets an unexpected chance at redemption is literally a world apart from anything produced by Hollywood.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2008

...an emotionally honest tale of redemption that does not ignore the fact that we live in a world of cause and consequence.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 28, 2008

The Johannesburg equivalent of any stateside gangster fairy tale, Tsotsi actually feels even more forced than Hollywood's modern urban dramas.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 17, 2007

Memorable, with a terrific performance by Presley Chweneyagae as Tsotsi that burns in its contained rage.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 16, 2007

Don't be fooled by the subtitles and the egg head accolades. This pretentious mess is just another country's version of 50 Cent-style fare.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Un drama urbano duro y conmovedor, si bien algo previsible, con un estupendo protagonista. Una pelcula realmente atendible que nos acerca al infrecuente cine sudafricano.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2007

This powerful story, reminiscent of Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment,' is told with a minimum of dialogue.

| Original Score: A | Jan 14, 2007

This film won the Oscar for best foreign language film, and it is well deserved.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2006

told with conviction and skill, and Chweneyagae's expressive face and eyes reveal all the emotions, fears and hopes that Tsotsi cannot articulate.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2006

In the long run, the film may not entirely satisfy one's intellectual curiosity, but it pleases the heart.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 9, 2006

A chance for the stay-at-home world-travelers to catch sight of Johannesburg's filthy sprawling township of Soweto.

| Original Score: C+ | May 13, 2006

It's well-acted, beautifully photographed and meticulously professional.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2006

Tsotsi remains at all times an intensely human story, one that transcends the particulars of its time and its place.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2006

A film of extraordinary viciousness and vulnerability about a criminal who has to meet an infant to remember he is still a child himself.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 4, 2006

Without cheap deceptions, clever editing, plot conveniences or overt exposition, the film pulls you in and keeps you there on the merit of the story's substance.

| May 3, 2006