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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Ebert & Roeper (629) on 26 Dec 2007

It's important, it's deeply inspiring, it's something from our not-so-distant past we must not forget, and it should be must-see viewing for…

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By Geoff Pevere (572) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 26 Dec 2007

It's ultimately less a movie than a high-gloss civics lesson…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 26 Dec 2007

At the end of the film, we learn that many world-changing ideas originated in the Washington character's classrooms, so there are obviously…

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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Dec 2007

The goal here is to educate and to inspire, and that's what The Great Debaters does…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 26 Dec 2007

There's so much to like in Denzel Washington's new movie, it's easier to accentuate the positive…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 26 Dec 2007

[It's] is history at its most entertaining, and a vivid reminder that we're all living in a country built and then rebuilt by people who turned…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 26 Dec 2007

Washington's charisma is on full display, and he makes Tompkins a figure of remarkable courage…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 26 Dec 2007

Even if it does precisely what you expect it's going to do, you still love it for doing it so well and telling a tale that bears repeating…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 26 Dec 2007

This fact-based drama is well-intentioned but gets a little bogged down in the details…

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By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 26 Dec 2007

With Antwone Fisher and now The Great Debaters, Mr. Washington has made a pair of movies that dodge enough clichés to indulge in a few…

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By Mark Keizer (225) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 26 Dec 2007

The Great Debaters is passionate in a professional way, a very fine movie that should have challenged its audience as much as it challenged…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Dec 2007

The quality of the performances is uniformly good…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Denver Post (1,096) on 26 Dec 2007

The actor-director brings the energy and rhythms of a sports flick to a little-known bit of American history in his deeply enjoyable film The…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 26 Dec 2007

Credit Washington for telling what might otherwise be a too-familiar tale with sensitivity and passion…

Review of The Great Debaters (2007)

By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 26 Dec 2007

At the end of the film, we learn that many world-changing ideas originated in the Washington character's classrooms, so there are obviously…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 26 Dec 2007

It makes learning look exciting and sexy and ... really hard…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Beliefnet (937) on 25 Dec 2007

Ultimately, as it should be, what carries the day is the power of the arguments and our recognition that it is forming these positions that…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (630) on 25 Dec 2007

enough to make you hope that one of these days Washington will forgo such conventional genre trappings and unleash his own Do the Right Thing…

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By Bill Gibron (1,013) for PopMatters (2,617) on 25 Dec 2007

As a movie, The Great Debaters misses too many possibilities, and harps on too many ancillary issues, to be stellar. It's solid, but that's all…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 24 Dec 2007

The bottom line is, this is a stirring portrait of African-American intelligence and pride, and if you poured this content over Tyler Perry's…

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