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By Gary Goldstein (1,089) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 20 Apr 2011

Writer-director Steven Silver (with an able assist from cinematographer Miroslaw Baszak) captures this brutal time - which led to the country's…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for New York Times (5,786) on 20 Apr 2011

Why, then, do we care not one bit when Pulitzers are won and bullets unsuccessfully dodged? The answer lies partly in Mr…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 20 Apr 2011

This question, which will instinctively occur to many viewers, is never quite dealt with in the film…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 20 Apr 2011

Silver means to get across the adrenaline rush of lives lived in dangerous extremes, but winds up trivializing their accomplishments and making…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 20 Apr 2011

True story of thrill-seeking photojournalists in South Africa just before the historic elections…

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By Geoff Berkshire (602) for Metromix.com (1,085) on 20 Apr 2011

Never stops feeling like a movie-ized version of real life events…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 20 Apr 2011

At no point does The Bang Bang Club offer a sense of how anyone on screen, behind a gun or behind a lens, got to this place…

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By Neil Rosen (146) for NY1-TV (146) on 20 Apr 2011

There is a good story here. Too bad this filmmaker didn't know how to tell it…

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By Michael Rechtshaffen (1,086) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 19 Apr 2011

When all is said and done, their Pulitzer-winning photographs prove more potent than this well-intended but frustratingly generic picture…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 19 Apr 2011

A single arresting shot of a photographer chasing a man on fire says more about journalistic ethics and the queasy power of the image than…

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By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Apr 2011

Silver treads around and too heavily on the moral ambiguities involved in documenting atrocities, moving between frantic, poorly explained…

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By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 18 Apr 2011

Solid if downbeat account of four award-winning photographers who covered sectarian violence in South Africa in the 1990s…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Sep 2010

Club's entertainment value suffers at the expense of trying to capture the events as they happened -- an ill-advised endeavor, considering everything…

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