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By Brent Simon (1,142) for Entertainment Today (201) on 15 Jun 2003

There remains a frutrating gulf between the fascinating nature of this story and the skillfulness of Jarecki's filmmaking but the potency of…

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By Edward Guthmann (364) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 12 Jun 2003

It leaves us puzzling, long after the film has ended, about the Friedmans' strange family dynamics, about the justice system and community…

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By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 12 Jun 2003

An incredibly provocative, fascinating film that is about the way one eccentric family faced an intolerable crisis and the confounding wheels…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Jun 2003

As an investigation into the psychology and processes of witch-hunts, Capturing the Friedmans is one of the most valuable film documents we've…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 Jun 2003

A remarkable document, whether you feel such private revelations should be made public or not…

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By Mike Clark (1,024) for USA Today (4,117) on 11 Jun 2003

Not since Memento has a movie served up such a provocative mind-bender, and the Sundance winner by first-time filmmaker Andrew Jarecki has…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 11 Jun 2003

Overmatched by the strange and compelling true story that is its subject, this unfortunate film ends up both more disingenuous than it wants…

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By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 11 Jun 2003

A movie that will haunt you for months to come…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 11 Jun 2003

Capturing the Friedmans may present the American family as seen by David Lynch when he looks beyond the white picket fence…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 11 Jun 2003

Above all else, though, Capturing the Friedmans is a vividly personal, devastating story of a family that was hopelessly compromised years…

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By Andrew Sarris (502) for New York Observer (1,400) on 10 Jun 2003

This film is not to be missed, because it is so painfully and profoundly human…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 10 Jun 2003

It's fascinating because you've never seen a more dysfunctional family in broad daylight, and it's disturbing because it straddles the fine…

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By Jeffrey Westhoff (767) for Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (767) on 05 Jun 2003

The Friedmans' story leaves you questioning the nature of family, of the criminal justice system and of truth itself…

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By Mark Caro (265) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 04 Jun 2003

The more you learn, the more questions you have about life in that Great Neck house…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 31 May 2003

As absorbing as its subject is difficult…

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By Jeremy Heilman (393) for MovieMartyr.com (391) on 31 May 2003

A document that, much like the denial-stricken members of the Friedman clan, seems to have become so clouded by bias that it refuses to look…

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By Charles Taylor (365) for Salon.com (2,725) on 29 May 2003

Andrew Jarecki could have done more to lay out the marriage of sexual and religious and social hysteria that made cases like this possible…

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By Jami Bernard (708) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 29 May 2003

This extraordinary film refracts truth through the prism of memory, until what you get is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, full of sacrifice…

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By Arthur Lazere (236) for culturevulture.net (793) on 28 May 2003

Jarecki's deft organization of the factual material provides the momentum for a never-flagging exposition of the complexities of the Friedman case…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Newsday (2,345) on 28 May 2003

Jarecki has taken an impossible subject, and subjects, and made a movie that works as crime thriller, social document and, occasionally, surrealist…

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