It shows what can go wrong when a good-intentioned filmmaker mixes historical tragedy with Hollywood banality.
– Richard Nilsen,
Arizona Republic,
9 Jun 2005
rotten:
Ostensibly about the aftermath of apartheid, but the pain of a people serves only as a backdrop for the most contrived of love stories.
– John Monaghan,
Detroit Free Press,
22 Apr 2005
rotten:
Is it a docudrama about South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings? Or is it love story? The problem with In My Country is that it tries to be both.
– Bob Townsend,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
14 Apr 2005
rotten:
Black, white and clunky.
– Stephen Cole,
Globe and Mail,
11 Apr 2005
fresh:
Need[s] to be seen, as essential history and as demonstration of a form of social reckoning where compassion triumphs over passion, and the olive branch over the gun.