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Wambli BearRunner

Irene Bedard

22 July 1967, Anchorage, Alaska, USA

24 April 1995, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

RogerEbert.com

An earnest, smartly mounted film about life on a present-day reservation.

March 02, 2016

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Salt Lake Tribune

Writer-director Chloe Zhao works methodically to set up Johnny's situation, while also capturing in poetic detail the dead-end lives of poverty, alcoholism and hopelessness on the reservation.

February 29, 2016

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WBAI Radio

An outsider looking in voyeurism veering offensively close to being more about the filmmaker's fixation on her immigrant alienation - if not a blatant exotic poverty porn aesthetic - than the brutal internal isolation of her subjects absent of causality.

March 26, 2016

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New York Post

The slow-paced film includes all the expected social themes - drinking, poverty, broken families. Where Zhao excels is in the range of emotions she gets from a mostly nonprofessional cast.

March 03, 2016

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Guardian

The restrained performances and luscious location photography are enough to make this a film worth exploring, though it might not be a bad idea to down a few caffeine-rich drinks before settling in to watch.

March 02, 2016

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PopMatters

In Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Zhao and her team have created an emotionally compelling neo-realist portrait of a family and their community experiencing the stresses and pressures of post-colonial life.

November 10, 2016

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The Nation

The film is exceptionally rich -- by turns raw, dreamy, harsh, sensuous, touching, intimate, garrulous, and elliptical.

March 03, 2016

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AV Club

Viewers will be torn between admiring its laid-back naturalism and wishing it possessed just a little more oomph.

March 02, 2016

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New York Times

Because her laissez-faire approach makes little effort to fit the fragmentary scenes into a tidy portrait of reservation life, "Songs My Brothers Taught Me" feels more authentic than if she had chosen to impose a tighter structure.

March 01, 2016

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The Young Folks

Zhao's film is imperfect, but it's a heartfelt and gorgeous one with a very timely story at its core.

March 12, 2016

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San Diego Reader

A moseying tour of life on the Lakota reservation, circa right now: the empty beauty of the badlands, the ancient struggle with alcohol, and the persistent push of youth to make good and make sense of a bad old world that somehow keeps hope alive.

April 07, 2016

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