61
Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The New York TimesHelen T. VerongosThe New York TimesHelen T. VerongosIn Grace’s stifling house, the electricity is dicey and the internet nonexistent. There isn’t a shower or extra bed. Just the third-world glaze of sweat and privation you see everywhere in this richly endowed land of economic imbalance, an atmosphere the film, Faraday Okoro’s feature debut, captures expertly.
- 63Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineFilm Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineCharacter development and backstory needed more work and would have added to better, more engaged storytelling.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe street life is vividly captured, and the dialogue — in English, Igbo and Yoruba (with English subtitles) — is sharp and expository.
- 60VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanOkoro has bent over backwards not to make the poverty-row version of a glib crime thriller, but he shouldn’t have bent so far.
- 50Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleWhen the stakes are raised, ho-hum thriller plotting takes over and Okoro struggles to clarify what his characters want. By the end, everyone’s motivations are fuzzy and the promise of a uniquely complex story of cross-cultural education, opportunity and morality has withered.