it is long, it is demanding and it gives us no easy answers or pat conclusions, but "Beasts of No Nation" performs a crucial service in making us understand that this is not "Boko Haram" or "ISIS" or a bunch of undifferentiated
a very powerful and confidently made movie, a film that really puts its audience through the wringer, which finally refuses any palliative gestures, with towering performances from Elba and Attah
"Beasts of No Nation" is an altogether more severe and grueling experience, sparing neither the boy, nor the audience from its particular heart of darkness
