100
Hitfix by Drew McWeeny
This is brutally strong filmmaking, aggressive and alive and impeccably accomplished.
The Tribe (Плем'я)
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- Ukraine,
- Netherlands
- 2014
- · 130m
Director
Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi
Cast
Hryhoriy Fesenko,
Yana Novikova,
Rosa Babiy,
Oleksandr Dsiadevych,
Oleksandr Osadchyi,
Yaroslav Biletskiy
Genre
Crime,
Drama
Sergey, who is both deaf and mute, enters a specialized boarding school for deaf children. There, he must navigate the hierarchy of the school’s network of organized crime, the Tribe. By participating in several robberies, he rises in the organization, only to break all of its unwritten rules when he meets a girl named Anya.
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100
CineVue by Ben Nicholson
Slaboshpitsky's The Tribe is gripping, tour de force cinema from its opening jab, and from there it continually forces you against the ropes before delivering a knockout punch with a gut-wrenching conclusion destined to leave audiences stunned.
100
Variety by Justin Chang
Sans dialogue or translation, each interaction effectively becomes a puzzle to be solved, and Slaboshpytskiy is brilliant at using ambiguity to heighten rather than dull the viewer’s perceptions. Even when the meaning of a particular exchange eludes us, a greater sense of narrative comprehension begins to take hold.
100
The Playlist by Jessica Kiang
The actions and events are naked to our eyes, not couched in reasons and justifications, not softened by explanations, by words.
100
Arizona Republic by Barbara VanDenburgh
The Tribe is that rare breed of film so masterful in execution it requires watching once, yet so devastating you may never be able to stomach seeing it again.
100
NPR by Bob Mondello
By the end, The Tribe has revealed itself as so original, and so chilling, it's likely to leave you speechless.
91
IndieWire by Eric Kohn
From one mesmerizing scene to the next, The Tribe never loses its flow. Even its harshest moments are defined by vibrant motion.
90
The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin
The use of sign language, deafness and silence itself adds several heady new ingredients to the base material, alchemically creating something rich, strange and very original.
90
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
Slaboshpytskiy has made one of the most unusual and disturbing films about criminality of the new century.
90
Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
The Tribe is one of the most disturbing films I’ve ever seen. It may also be among the most memorable — not only for its pitch-black view of human nature, but for the devilishly instructive way in which it turns the tables on us. As we watch in anxious confusion, it’s as if we are profoundly deaf, trying to understand what’s going on and striving to break out of isolation.
80
The New Yorker by Anthony Lane
What fleshes out the movie, and lends it such an extraordinary pulse of life, is the want of words.
80
The Telegraph by Mike McCahill
You emerge from this brutally unsentimental education with your chest pounding and your ears ringing – its radical empathy extends to putting us in not just the same room as its subjects, but the same helpless, despairing position. Some films are made to leave you speechless; for some experiences, there can be no words.
80
Total Film by Matt Glasby
Original, engrossing and extremely confrontational, The Tribe treads the dark path between misery porn and masterpiece.
38
Slant Magazine by Steve Macfarlane
The film is more interested in performance and symbolism than in the meaning of its characters' words or their substitutive gestures.
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