Ezra

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Ezra

2007

1h 50m

Drama

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17 Reviews

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100+ Ratings

Rebels force a 9-year-old boy to fight in a civil war in Sierra Leone.

Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

03/07/2008

Only intermittently effective despite its powerful subject matter.

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

02/20/2008

C-

Rarely has the gulf between relevance of subject matter and ineptitude of execution been greater than it is in Ezra.

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Gene Seymour

Newsday

02/13/2008

3/4

Since the movie, however infuriating, is a plea for mercy, the audience is compelled to forgive Ezra its often jittery and confusing overlaps.

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Nora Lee Mandel

Film-Forward.com

12/23/2008

8/10

Less a catalog of horrors than how a child soldier and his community can pick up the pieces after war, with fictionalized sentimentality, but powerful and passionate

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John P. McCarthy

Boxoffice Magazine

02/19/2008

Clear-eyed and without aiming for the emotional jugular, Ezra goes well beyond geography, politics and ethnicity... to explore the psychological toll on young people caught in violent situations not of their making and beyond their understanding.

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Benjamin Sutton

New York Press

02/14/2008

A taut film detailing the psychological warfare used to control child soldiers who fill the ranks of rebel armies in Africa.

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Synopsis

Rebels force a 9-year-old boy to fight in a civil war in Sierra Leone.

Director: Newton I. Aduaka
Producer: Gorune Aprikian, Michel Loro
Screenwriter: Newton I. Aduaka, Alain-Michel Blanc
Production Co: arte France Cinéma, RTR Fernsehfonds, Centre National du Cinéma et de L'image Animée
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 50m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR