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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 30 Sep 2004

To be sure it's blatantly partisan, but this documentary about the current presidential candidate's youth is also a moving exploration of Vietnam…

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By Jonathan Curiel (75) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 Sep 2004

An unabashed paean to Kerry's character at a time in the presidential election when Kerry's character is being questioned. It's also a riveting film…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 30 Sep 2004

Going Upriver is talky, slow-moving and surprisingly superficial, more like a campaign informercial…

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By Jack Mathews (1,044) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 30 Sep 2004

Does an excellent job of telling Kerry's side of it…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for CNN.com (607) on 30 Sep 2004

Going Upriver, unlike some of the other documentaries that have been released this year, will maintain its value even after the elections are over…

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By Daniel Rubin (1) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 30 Sep 2004

The film leaves the viewer with a more vivid sense of Kerry the man, portraying him as admirable, if not lovable…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 30 Sep 2004

Those who dismiss Going Upriver as a movie-length campaign commercial will miss out on a compelling and dramatic story of a young man's trial by fire…

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By John Wirt (638) for Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) (638) on 30 Sep 2004

Directed by John Kerry's friend, George Butler, the film is clearly pro-Kerry, but it comes off as less a hagiography than a genuine history…

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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 29 Sep 2004

Put into production long before Kerry's presidential candidacy, the absorbing account reflects Butler's long experience with nonfiction film…

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By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 29 Sep 2004

It's a partisan campaign film, of course, but a subtle one…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 29 Sep 2004

George Butler's new documentary, unabashed in its admiration for John Kerry, is clearly meant to intervene in the current presidential campaign…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 29 Sep 2004

This is the biggest surprise of all -- it's hard to watch Going Upriver without wondering, frankly, what became of the young John Kerry, who…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 29 Sep 2004

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By Ernest Hardy (466) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 29 Sep 2004

The film won't likely change any minds, but there's a taut political essay beneath the blatant campaigning…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 29 Sep 2004

What is remarkable is the sense of déjà vu that permeates the film…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Sep 2004

Butler is in no way a hot-headed or contentious piece of agit-prop, unlike so many other election year documentaries; like Kerry himself, the…

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Review of Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 22 Sep 2004

A compelling, blow-by-blow account of John Kerry's service in Vietnam -- and, more than that, the full revealing chronicle of how he ultimately…

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By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Sep 2004

Going Upriver really concerns all soldiers who returned from Vietnam only to discover that their nation had failed them…

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