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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 08 Aug 2011

The acting is uniformly excellent, and the cause - dragging the beginnings of civil rights into Jackson, Miss., at great risk - couldn't be…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 08 Aug 2011

Is the movie version of The Help better than the book? Yes, it is, primarily for one reason: The book doesn't have Viola Davis in it…

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By Maria Cote (2) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 08 Aug 2011

The message is delivered in a whispered hush, but you will hear it. Because it's true what your parents said when you were young…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 08 Aug 2011

Lushly produced, sunny drama about the dark reality of entrenched segregation and racial prejudice in early-'60s Jackson, Mississippi…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 08 Aug 2011

We don't need to see white characters feeling guilty or oppressed to understand that the verbal and emotional abuse committed against 'the…

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By Thomas Leupp (166) for Hollywood.com (1,014) on 08 Aug 2011

We are all invited to revel in the shadenfreude, but in between the snickering, it's worth pondering whether the film has perhaps lost its…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 08 Aug 2011

A deeply touching human story filled with humor and heartbreak is rare in any movie season, especially summer…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 08 Aug 2011

The Help definitely worked on me as a consummate tear-jerker with a terrific cast, and it's pretty much the summer's only decent Hollywood drama…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 08 Aug 2011

This is a good film, involving and wonderfully acted…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 07 Aug 2011

Taylor does capture the Jim Crow era and its anxieties well, but his characters tend toward the facile and his white heroine is too idealized…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 07 Aug 2011

The #1 best-seller is brought lovingly to screen…

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By Caryn James (352) for James on screenS (89) on 07 Aug 2011

No artistic ambition, but the film is an even more effective, big warm bath of a crowd-pleaser than the megaselling novel…

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By David Germain (226) for Associated Press (1,685) on 07 Aug 2011

Stone, Davis and Spencer forge something quite beautiful, a sense of sisterhood and equality that unfolds with ease and grace, never feeling…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 07 Aug 2011

A stirring black-empowerment tale aimed squarely at white audiences, The Help personalizes the civil rights movement through the testimony…

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By David Denby (676) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 07 Aug 2011

It's a carefully manicured, almost genteel piece of moviemaking. The film is paradoxically both rousing and lulling…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 04 Aug 2011

[VIDEO] This is an appropriately moving film that never bows to sentimentality. What you feel is real. By all means, see this wonderful movie…

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