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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 03 May 2011

Of course the experiences and sacrifices of black troops, which were so often overlooked, should be represented and honored…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 23 Jun 2010

Aspires to be epic, but mostly it's just unfocused, sprawling and badly in need of editing…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 12 Apr 2010

Contains scenes of brilliance, interrupted by scenes that meander. There is too much, too many characters, too many subplots…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 06 Apr 2010

Throughout, Terence Blanchard's score swells and sweeps, reminding us, at every moment, what we're supposed to feel…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 04 Jan 2010

It's all too much and too little: a history lesson in institutional racism that falls into character cliches, a human drama that gets lost…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 22 Nov 2009

And for all Lee's ballyhoo about racial stereotyping, one might expect him to adopt a less hackneyed approach to his portrayals of Italians and women…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 02 Sep 2009

It is in the fragile bonds that form between the black soldiers and the Italian villagers that Miracle at St…

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By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Times (392) on 29 Aug 2009

Spike Lee has turned in an odd hybrid of a film--a 160 minute war epic combined with a crime thriller combined with a discourse on civil rights…

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By Fernando F. Croce (840) for CinePassion (694) on 25 Aug 2009

As a theoretical corrective, it's salutary; as a movie, it's a frickin' blooper…

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By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Apr 2009

Overblown and unconvincing, the director's bright, poppy style clashing with the grim subject matter…

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By Ryan Cracknell (408) for Movie Views (286) on 17 Feb 2009

While it does have its weak points, it's held together by its unique angle on the war as well as strong characterization for its central characters…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 12 Feb 2009

The film collapses because Lee can't sew these vignettes into a seamless tapestry…

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By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 28 Jan 2009

Ask ten people who've seen this movie what the title's miracle is referring to, and you'll get a couple of different guesses and a whole lot…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 17 Jan 2009

For all his excesses and wrong turns, Lee has made a grown-up movie with an adult sense of loss and an adult sense of hope…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 08 Dec 2008

Lee's framing device - which ends with a head-scratching fantasy - doesn't work. At. All…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 26 Nov 2008

There's no moviemaking miracle at work here, just a half-baked project that might be Lee's biggest disappointment to date…

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By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

It might have been easily trimmed by a half hour, which is a shame, because there are so many good moments buried in there -- a proverbial…

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By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 04 Nov 2008

Even in a film that clocks in at a quasi-epic 2 hours and 40 minutes, that's just too much narrative…

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By Michael Dance (46) for The Cinema Source (46) on 11 Oct 2008

Little imperfections prevent it from being the classic epic it wants to be, but Lee accomplishes quite a lot here…

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By Todd Gilchrist (762) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 09 Oct 2008

By choosing for his definitive portrait a tale based on a fictional novel rather than an actual true story, Lee has undermined his own efforts…

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