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  2. Oct 16, 2015 · Based on the same-titled novel by Uzodinma Iweala, a Nigerian doctor and sociologist who began the story as a thesis project at Harvard, the movie immediately puts us in the shoes (and sometimes bare feet) of its hero, eight year old Agu (Abraham Attah). He narrates parts of the movie in a mostly embittered but occasionally lyrical voice-over ...

  3. Oct 16, 2015 · Written and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, “Beasts of No Nation” is based on Uzodinma Iweala’s harrowing, linguistically dazzling novel of a child soldier’s life. Mr. Iweala’s ...

    • Cary Joji Fukunaga
    • A.O. Scott
    • 137 min
  4. Oct 16, 2015 · Beasts of No Nation finds writer-director Cary Fukunaga working with a talented cast to offer a sobering, uncompromising, yet still somehow hopeful picture of war's human cost. Read Critics...

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  5. Sep 2, 2015 · Fukunaga brings flair, muscular storytelling, directness and a persuasively epic sweep to this brutal, heartrending movie about child soldiers and a civil war in an imaginary West African country...

  6. Absolutely devastating in its blunt portrayal of African civil wars, Beasts of No Nation packs so burdensome an emotional punch that I was left in stunned detachment, unable to cope with much of...

  7. Oct 16, 2015 · Beasts of No Nation: Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. With Abraham Attah, Emmanuel Affadzi, Ricky Adelayitor, Andrew Adote. A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.

  8. Oct 14, 2015 · By Max Nicholson. Updated: Oct 14, 2015 3:25 pm. Posted: Oct 14, 2015 1:36 pm. Based on the 2005 novel by Uzodinma Iweala and set in an unnamed African country, Beasts of No Nation tells the...

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