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By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 04 Dec 2014

The film’s strongest point of view is that big-time football has become a precious way of life and induces a religious fervor that can warp…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 29 Nov 2014

It's an essential documenting of where we are, and it leaves you with a lot of necessary, troubling feelings…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 28 Nov 2014

Bar-Lev lets his subjects off easy, but that's partly because they do so much damage to themselves…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 27 Nov 2014

Happy Valley might've fleshed out some of these larger implications…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 25 Nov 2014

Though fascinating, the movie's more of a well-organized mess than a thorough examination…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 23 Nov 2014

Happy Valley is not a work of reportage so much as it's a portrait of a community suffering from mass dementia…

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By John S (2,711) on 23 Nov 2014

Powerful. Fair and balanced. Examines a tragic issue without oversimplification…

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By Beth B (201) on 23 Nov 2014

How disturbing.......football is far more important in Happy Valley than the victims of a predatory pedofile, One that was well known by Joe…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 21 Nov 2014

Here it is, folks, in your face. Will you look or return to your own private Happy Valley…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 21 Nov 2014

The documentary offers a compelling overview of the case, but Bar-Lev spends too much time painting Paterno as a victim and scapegoat…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Nov 2014

You may cringe. You may sympathize. You may cringe at your own sympathy…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 20 Nov 2014

Happy Valley is especially good at revealing a mass desire to shift blame, showing how everyone the scandal touched wanted to focus on the…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 20 Nov 2014

It’s a ruined community grappling with belated ethics; that’s the real story here…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 20 Nov 2014

It's slightly frustrating that the movie doesn't venture a point-of-view on any of these larger issues, which are less clear cut than the matters…

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By Erik Childress (902) for Film Threat (5,156) on 19 Nov 2014

In what could be the biggest miscarriage of justice yet, Bar-Lev has disgracefully played right into the hands of people he once exposed as…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 19 Nov 2014

It's one of the year's most provocative films, precisely because it undercuts every expectation the viewer might have going into it…

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By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for The Playlist (3,871) on 18 Nov 2014

As it did with the actual case, Happy Valley will divide audiences and create heated discussions over the many contradicting reactions given…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Nov 2014

Nothing in this film (and little in any other movie this year) compares to the scenes of Sandusky's adopted son, Matt, recounting his realization…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 18 Nov 2014

Happy Valley, even as it revisits past events, has a chilling timeliness…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 18 Nov 2014

Happy Valley’s subject matter is difficult, but not Bar-Lev’s approach, which unfolds like an outstanding piece of long-form magazine reportage,…

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