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Acting
Akinshina's feral, wounded performance — she was 15, terrifyingly real.
Direction
Bodrov Jr.'s confident debut, cut short by tragedy.
Writing
Children speak like children, not precocious screenwriter puppets.

Director
Sergei Bodrov Jr.
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