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Washington Post by Ann Hornaday
Bazawule’s simple, arrestingly composed frames accumulate into something transcendent and deeply affecting.
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Los Angeles Times by Carlos Aguilar
Wonderfully atmospheric and culturally enriching, The Burial of Kojo truly qualifies as a spellbinding experience.
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The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
The Burial of Kojo is a near-virtuoso work, a feast of emotion, nuance and beauty, and a startling feature directing debut.
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Though the film deals in tragedy, its sheer cinematic exuberance is immensely hopeful. As too, is the story of how one of the most exciting directorial debuts in recent memory was picked up by Ava DuVernay’s Array Releasing and planted in a few theaters before blossoming on Netflix.
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The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Viewers may worry that Bazawule's starkly gorgeous pictures aren't going to add up to anything, but Burial satisfies in prosaic as well as poetic terms, supplying an end that makes sense of its beginning. It will leave many who see it eager for the young filmmaker's next fable.