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Despite its fanciful title, Turtles Can Fly leads viewers into a slough of despond, one in which not just hope is strangled but virtually any possibility for simple human kindness.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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Turtles Can Fly
Overview
Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
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88%
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Fresh
Riveting, depressing and eye-opening, Turtles Can Fly is a movie about an Iraq that the news hasn't shown us.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
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A lyrical and heartbreaking reminder of the human toll of war.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh
A story that renders into poetry the sad facts of survival for child victims of war.
Susan Walker, Toronto Star
Fresh
relentless, bleakly funny, thoroughly remarkable drama
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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