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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 09 Aug 2012

This essential, finely honed biographical portrait is jollied along by all the ironies and complexities of modern China…

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By Mary Abbe (1) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 08 Aug 2012

Affable and unpretentious, Ai comes across as a cagey operator whose candor is very appealing…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 08 Aug 2012

The boundaries between performance and protest are virtuosically, vitally fuddled in this stirring documentary chronicling three years in the…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 08 Aug 2012

The artist repudiated the repudiation. Art had, as art always should have, the last word…

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By Edward Lawrenson (138) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 08 Aug 2012

Fascinating account of Weiwei's practice and politics that gives centre stage to his charismatic personality…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Film4 (1,522) on 08 Aug 2012

Klayman's all-access, warts-and-all coverage of this artist's struggles with the State represents an extension of Ai's own ideals about transparency…

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By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 08 Aug 2012

The metaphor is plain yet elegant: Ai is the clever cat busily devising ways to push through the barriers physical, cultural, mental -- that…

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By Tirdad Derakhshani (358) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 08 Aug 2012

Ai Weiwei comes off as a man on a singular mission: to record the life around him before it is erased or distorted by a repressive government…

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By Dave Calhoun (583) for Time Out (7,510) on 06 Aug 2012

In terms of getting his message out to a wider audience, this film simply and effectively serves as part of the cause…

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By David Parkinson (764) for Empire (3,446) on 05 Aug 2012

Klayman exploits the opportunity to follow a man at the eye of a cultural and political storm, although more detail on his creative process…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 04 Aug 2012

Watching Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is like experiencing a thrilling unfinished symphony: The story is enthralling, but it's not over, and there's…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Aug 2012

Ai admits that he's become a brand for liberal thinking and individualism, though that's nothing to be ashamed of -- at this point, his Warholian…

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By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 02 Aug 2012

An excellent, revelatory new documentary. Weiwei proves a thoroughly compelling subject…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 02 Aug 2012

Structurally ragged but engrossing documentary [about] a courageous provocateur with a gift for cleverly ridiculing a dangerous regime…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 01 Aug 2012

Alison Klayman's documentary is one of the most engagingly powerful movies of the year almost completely on the strength of Ai's rumpled charisma…

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By Shawn Levy (1,238) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 01 Aug 2012

You come away with an appreciation of the abstraction, scale and daring of Ai's art and, even more, a sense of the living man in his courage,…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 Aug 2012

The only artwork by Ai that Klayman's film dwells on at any length -- aside from the iconic bird's nest stadium he helped design for the Beijing…

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By James Mottram (656) for Total Film (3,532) on 29 Jul 2012

The finale, as Ai's Twitter tirades lead to a serious human-rights breach, will make your blood boil…

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By Avi Offer (997) for NYC Movie Guru (997) on 27 Jul 2012

A vital, informative wake-up call that will make you feel equally enraged and inspired…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 27 Jul 2012

Klayman's riveting, vérité-style film captures this burly, bigger-than-life figure over the past three years, as his activism has heightened,…

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