While it has its share of comic observations and poetic flourishes, it is a relentlessly downbeat tale of alienation, dipsomania and nihilistic ruin.

~ Anton Bitel -

While it has its share of comic observations and poetic flourishes, it is a relentlessly downbeat tale of alienation, dipsomania and nihilistic ruin.

~ Anton Bitel -

The plot promises more than it delivers.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The plot promises more than it delivers.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Do not see it with an empty stomach and a full wallet or they will soon be the other way round.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Do not see it with an empty stomach and a full wallet or they will soon be the other way round.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Manages to do justice to Makeba’s wonderful talent and noble activism.

~ Robert Munro -

Manages to do justice to Makeba’s wonderful talent and noble activism.

~ Robert Munro -

I found the pseudo intellectualism in the movie tiresome and affected.

~ Caro Ness -

I found the pseudo intellectualism in the movie tiresome and affected.

~ Caro Ness -

An exercise in nothingness.

~ Caro Ness -

An exercise in nothingness.

~ Caro Ness -

Buska seems completely at ease with this complicated woman who is by turns childish and playful, ferocious and tyrannical, and keenly intellectual.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Buska seems completely at ease with this complicated woman who is by turns childish and playful, ferocious and tyrannical, and keenly intellectual.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The situation suffers from its confined setting and, for much of the time, a lack of dramatic tension.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The situation suffers from its confined setting and, for much of the time, a lack of dramatic tension.

~ Amber Wilkinson -