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www.variety.com - : ''Cargo'' is a brooding, Conradian yarn of moral malaise aboard a decrepit transport ship carrying an unholy assortment of contraband, human and otherwise. Focused upon a young stowaway whose presence forces the crew's horrible secrets to the surface, lean script by frequent Ken Loach scenarist Paul Laverty submerges scarcely below the water line a familiar European self-loathing for continuing colonial attitudes and misdeeds that's getting awfully shopworn. more...
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www.ericdsnider.com - : Why does one crewman go crazy and climb to the crow's nest buck naked? Why are the boots always left behind when men disappear? Who's actually taking the men away? If it's who we're supposed to think it is ... come on. That one person against those big, strong men? Please. The film is a frustrating and unsatisfying mystery, a complete waste of the cool old ship it was shot on. more...
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