Sobering and important.

A stirring, large-souled movie.

Boorman treats this moving, important subject with restraint, tact, and candid views of horrors suffered by the nation.

A potent, moving, liberal-minded docudrama.

There is something not quite right about the film itself.

Although In My Country is charged with moments of grace and feeling, the film is ultimately betrayed by the clunky Jackson-Binoche romance.

Boorman's troubles usually come from going over the top (atop Exorcist II, there's always Zardoz). But this is one of his few misfires that almost anyone would call tepid.

It's essential viewing for anyone interested in the state of post-Apartheid South Africa.

In My Country doesn't so much explore as use the tragedy of black South Africa to give its heroine a righteous slap of nobility.

In My Country stands closest to "Hotel Rwanda," a similarly clumsy yet inescapably moving effort to confront the brutal consequences of colonial oppression.

High-minded but hopelessly wooden film.

Boorman's stars Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson are valiant - even impressive - but they cannot rescue this grueling film or its mechanical plot.

The charisma and hard work by his two leads allows Boorman to succeed beyond all expectations.

A disappointingly blunt, monochrome work.