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Human Flow
Directed by
Ai Weiwei
PG-13
2017
2h 20m
Documentary
7.2
91%
81%
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Human Flow is director and artist Ai Weiwei's detailed and heartbreaking exploration into the global refugee crisis.
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Cast of Human Flow
Boris Cheshirkov
Himself / Writer
Marin Din Kajdomcaj
Herself
Princess Dana Firas of Jordan
Herself
Abeer Khalid
Ai Weiwei
Director / Producer
Chin-Chin Yap
Writer / Producer
Tim Finch
Writer
Heino Deckert
Producer
Human Flow Ratings & Reviews
Spirituality & Health
Bilge Ebiri
By making it clear that those who find themselves in these situations are all ordinary people just like us, Ai Weiwei brings home the sheer, unthinkable monstrousness of their predicament.
Houston Chronicle
Cary Darling
The scattershot and lengthy documentary doesn't attempt to be a news report...but the cumulative impact of its often haunting images brings home the plight of millions of the world's people.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
The imagery encourages viewers to adopt a global perspective in considering the subject matter.
Detroit News
Tom Long
It does not browbeat or preach, it simply shows, and what it shows is overwhelming.
The New Republic
Irene Hsu
Ai's film becomes more digressive than discursive. Rather than contending with the information saturation around the crisis, Human Flow falls prey to it. Footage is layered without clear logic, poetic or narrative.
The Playlist
Jessica Kiang
We never remain long enough with any one person to get more than a cursory idea of their story, and so over the course of the film's 140 minute runtime, we end up with a sense of the crisis as a tragedy, yes, but a choral, abstract one.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
The film is all the more powerful for being so calm and unhurried. Ai doesn't castigate or preach. He doesn't have to. The facts, the images, speak for themselves. Instead, he bears witness.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
An artful, solemn globe-hop epic of the refugee crisis with an unfortunate cast of millions.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Solutions would be welcome, but it's not really the fault of the film for not having the answers. Human Flow at least opens the tap for global inspection.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
Weiwei doesn't break any new ground in covering the global refugee crisis, but he vividly illustraes - in straightforward yet artistic terms - the scale of the problem without compromising the dignity or humanity of the survivors.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Emily Yoshida
Ai [Weiwei] clearly wants to take a macro view of an impossible problem, to find some clarity in abstraction. But whenever he just talks to the refugees face to face, we learn more than any drone shot could tell us.
NPR
Ella Taylor
Human Flow leaves us wondering what will become of this lost generation, stranded without home or schooling or work, if or when they run out of hope and turn to anger or despair.
TheWrap
Elizabeth Weitzman
Ai is intent on contrasting the intimate with the intimidating. The sheer mass, the never-ending flow, threatens to overwhelm us. And that, one suspects, is the decisive point.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Fagerholm
A towering achievement from one of the world's foremost champions of human rights. Its subject matter may be overwhelmingly bleak, but its call for unity is profoundly invigorating.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
This movie, a testament to the power of seeing, provides a long and uncommonly vivid look at a human crisis that's changing the face of our planet.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Mr. Ai's ambition in "Human Flow" is as expansive as his reach and his apparently deep-pocketed resources.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
The film is long ... but the cumulative effect is not exhaustion or boredom, but rather sorrow and outrage at the violence, economic despair and persecution - whether religious, ethnic or political - that have driven these people from their homes.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
In this respect, Human Flow stuns: It reveals the full breadth of a catastrophe that we might usually think of as piecemeal.
AV Club
Noel Murray
There have been a number of gripping "you are there" films about refugees over the past few years, but Human Flow distinguishes itself from the pack with how handsome it looks.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
Cinema may be a machine designed to produce empathy, but this is the rare film that reckons with how hard it can be to sustain it.
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