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By Damon Wise (265) for Time Out (7,510) on 26 Jan 2006

Whites debating racial injustice: fine for a book published in Afrikaans a decade ago, but a poor premise for a message movie…

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By Janet Maslin (949) for New York Times (5,786) on 19 May 2003

Mr. Brando appears only briefly and is badly missed. His character takes the whole film a notch above where it might otherwise go…

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By Dan Lybarger (786) for Nitrate Online (381) on 14 Mar 2003

A heavy-handed but effective condemnation of Apartheid justice. Brando, who worked for free on this one, is great as an opposition lawyer…

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By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Jun 2002

A tract, a dry rerun of Cry Freedom, with none of that film's visual sweep (whatever else its faults) and with nothing new to tell us…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 21 Oct 2001

This is filmmaking meant to engage the heart-and other visceral organs-more than the mind; its effects are simple, broad and directly put…

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By Jeanne Cooper (4) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 Jan 2000

A Dry White Season bursts through your door and beats you senseless; it seems perverse to question its technique and only days later can you…

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By Harper Barnes (46) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 28 May 1998

A Dry White Season is political cinema so deeply felt it attains a moral grace…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 28 Nov 1997

Donald Sutherland is perfectly cast and quietly effective as a man who will not be turned aside, who does not wish misfortune upon himself…

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By Pauline Kael (368) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 12 Apr 1996

Like Cry Freedom, it's still whites debating racial injustice: fine for a book published in Afrikaans a decade ago, but a poor premise for…

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By Jay Carr (837) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 22 Mar 1991

Dry White Season is no less predictable than its predecessors, but its frankness and sincerity matter more than its fundamental bluntness…

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