Rotten Tomatoes: 99% From 93 Reviews Powerful, pertinent and important, Timbuktu is a film so linked to our current moment that it feels like a conspiracy. The film feels like an eye-witness account into the horrors of extremist oppression without the tub-thumping and distracting hyperbole of media reporting and political rhetoric. It is a tragedy that plays out on a human level, escalating with harrowing speed and unbelievable drive. It feels almost like an investigation into the ridiculousness of extremism: the murderers, rapists and pillagers aren't grotesque, cartoonish villains, they're flawed, occasionally bumbling and horrifyingly normal. But their acts are unfathomable, despicable and horribly compelled by an assumed righteousness, and their human costs are a stark reminder that the spectrum of victims is often a lot grosser than is reported in less artistic media. Sample Review:
"It has some of the same comic absurdism that ran through Chris Morris's Four Lions, but the satire is combined with lyricism and a sense of mounting tragedy." - Geoffrey McNab, Independent
