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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 08 Aug 2019

This boldly confrontational and journalistically probing documentary, by the director Nanfu Wang, goes beyond the slogan of China’s longtime…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 08 Aug 2019

Shocking as it may be, One Child Nation needs to be seen…

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By Rhys Handley (6) for CineVue (2,163) on 08 Aug 2019

The revelations and images contained within are individually resonant and telling of a wider picture, but there’s a sense that Wang, or perhaps…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 07 Aug 2019

The individual stories that make up One Child Nation, the worthy winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s grand jury prize for U.S…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 07 Aug 2019

If One Child sometimes seems to raise more questions than it can answer, and more pain than it has room to explore, the movie offers an urgent…

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By Lawrence Garcia (34) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Aug 2019

As wide-ranging in scope as it is horrifying in its particulars, the film does the necessary work of illuminating, for a large audience, a…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Aug 2019

Rich in intimate detail, the film attains a more epic power as it burrows deeper into the effects of China’s one-child policy…

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By Eli F. (29) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 05 Aug 2019

What it lacks in formal finesse or educational scope, the film more than compensates as a taut illustration of the profound disconnect between…

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By Eli Friedberg (15) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 05 Aug 2019

What it lacks in formal finesse or educational scope, the film more than compensates as a taut illustration of the profound disconnect between…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 08 Mar 2019

Simultaneously intimate and far-reaching, the film does far more than scratch the surface, forcing audiences to confront a policy that, amid…

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By Gary Garrison (43) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Feb 2019

Wang’s film is intimate, thought-provoking and well-crafted…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 03 Feb 2019

Densely informative yet always grounded in deep personal investment and clear-eyed compassion, this is a powerful indictment of a traumatic…

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By Dante James (28) for Film Threat (5,156) on 03 Feb 2019

This is a documentary that is very difficult to stomach…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 03 Feb 2019

Using a remarkable personal lens, the film examines the reverberations of propaganda on broken families across multiple generations…

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By John Berra (26) for Screen International (2,241) on 03 Feb 2019

One Child Nation is an utterly compelling documentary that examines the consequences of this staunchly enforced ‘social experiment’…

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