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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 24 Jul 2008

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, a documentary by Marina Zenovich that is also a first-rate work of reportage, makes a forceful case that…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 24 Jul 2008

I found myself occasionally enthralled, mainly due to Polanski's haunted presence coming through, even in the form of an absent ghost…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 24 Jul 2008

Roman Polanski (The Pianist, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown) is unquestionably a great filmmaker, but as Marina Zenovich's documentary Roman Polanski…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 24 Jul 2008

The most significant fact of the film is that the prosecutor Gunson, a straight-laced Mormon, agrees with the defender Dalton that justice…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 23 Jul 2008

The film walks a fine line between contempt for Polanski's crimes and sympathy for his trials and his screwed-up psyche, and it manages both…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 23 Jul 2008

This is a superb picture, sharp, open-minded, wised-up and cinematically accomplished…

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By Katey Rich (412) for CinemaBlend.com (1,378) on 14 Jul 2008

A clever, contemplative kind of courtroom drama that utilizes the best of Hollywood filmmaking style to tell a story so strange, it must be true…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Ebert & Roeper (629) on 13 Jul 2008

This is more about the culture of celebrity, the sensationalism, a power hungry, media-hungry judge, and all the things that have happened…

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By Ray Greene (127) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 10 Jul 2008

Zenovich has made a feature worthy of its eccentric and reckless central figure at his most cynical and embittered…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 10 Jul 2008

None of the interviewees in Marina Zenovich's fascinating documentary manages to make sense of the famous filmmaker's behavior or apparent…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 09 Jul 2008

Falls short of being a great film because it lacks a certain ambition…

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By Felix Vasquez Jr. (1,949) for Cinema Crazed (1,907) on 15 Jun 2008

Seeks to explore both sides of the endless debate and asks all parties to consider every angle before labeling him as a pedophile or misunderstood…

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By Bill Gibron (1,013) for PopMatters (2,617) on 12 Jun 2008

Roman Polanski deserves his badge of dishonor, no question about it. This amazing documentary argues that others need to start sporting one as well…

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By Don Willmott (148) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 10 Jun 2008

A great and somewhat Kafkaesque story that Polanski might have enjoyed directing... had it been fiction…

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By Geoff Berkshire (602) for Metromix.com (1,085) on 08 Jun 2008

Persuasively demonstrates Polanski was guilty as sin, yet his conviction was a miscarriage of justice…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Jun 2008

While not denying the moral issue of a director sleeping with a minor, Zenovich's riveting docu places the controversial case in a broader…

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By Peter Ames Carlin (1) for Oregonian (1,550) on 05 Jun 2008

As HBO's spellbinding documentary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired reveals, the immediate facts can't begin to describe the moral ambiguities…

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By Erik Davis (66) for Cinematical (752) on 01 Feb 2008

Is Polanski a great filmmaker who made a mistake, or a perverted coward who ran from the law instead of facing the music…

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