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29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranNearly three hours long, and deliberately paced at that, this first feature ever in the Inuit language is a demanding experience. But the rewards for those who risk the journey are simply extraordinary.
- 100VarietyLisa NesselsonVarietyLisa NesselsonThe first-ever screenplay written in the Inuit language, Inuktitut -- and the first time's a charm.
- 100New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsDon't miss The Fast Runner. If you do, you will deprive yourself of not only one of the most intriguing feature-film projects in decades and enough plain-spoken anthropology for three credits at Harvard, but one of the most flat-out entertaining movies of the year.
- 100Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumStunning, fully formed masterpiece.
- 90SlateDavid EdelsteinSlateDavid EdelsteinOne of the most enthralling three hours you'll ever spend at the theater.
- 89Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe perfect antidote to the summer heat in Austin, more refreshing even than a dip in our chilly holy waters of Barton Springs.
- 88Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezMore than once during The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat), it's easy to forget you're watching a movie.
- 88Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaThis long (nearly three hours), revelatory movie is both a thrilling adventure about endurance and survival, and an elegiac examination of centuries-old tribal culture, fast-fading in the new millennium.
- 88New York PostMegan LehmannNew York PostMegan LehmannIt is an important, thoroughly bewitching work of art.
- 75Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittIts refusal to draw solid lines between "good" and "evil" characters is more sophisticated than the psychology of most current commercial pictures. It's well worth a trek to a theater adventurous enough to show it.