AALBC.com
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6
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By Kam Williams
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Dec 11, 2012
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Forget pimps, it's apparently just as hard out there for a street peddler.
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Slant Magazine
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6
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By Chuck Bowen
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Dec 11, 2012
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The script simply isn't in the same league as the images that Andrew Dosunmu and the gifted cinematographer Bradford Young have fashioned.
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Philadelphia Daily News
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6
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By Gary Thompson
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Dec 11, 2012
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Violent episodes explode and recede, but without context and emotional connection, they're sometimes just pictures.
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Boston Phoenix
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0
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By Miles Bowe
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Dec 11, 2012
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Restless City looks gorgeous, but has nothing to say.
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TheMovieReport.com
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8
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By Michael Dequina
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Dec 11, 2012
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Inviting and intriguing in its beauty, grit, and danger, familiar yet foreign.
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Los Angeles Times
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4
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By Mark Olsen
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Dec 11, 2012
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In its portrait of a "Restless City" the film is strangely inert and feels like the work of image-makers, not storytellers.
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Washington Post
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8
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By Ann Hornaday
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Dec 11, 2012
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"Restless City" possesses a poetic, contemplative sensibility as attuned to the vagrant beauty of polyglot urban life as to its chaotic unpredictability.
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New York Times
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5
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By Nicolas Rapold
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Dec 11, 2012
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Mr. Dosunmu seems to have directed all his actors to pause before delivering lines, giving a languor to the film that comes to feel studied.
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Boston Globe
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8
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By Wesley Morris
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Dec 11, 2012
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"Restless City" is tumescent with atmosphere.
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Village Voice
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0
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By Ernest Hardy
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Apr 25, 2012
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Told in an elliptical style with a pacing and jagged rhythms that take some getting used to, the thrust and power of the film lies in its poetic imagery...
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