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By Ken C (567) on 11 Jul 2016

Love is complete by itself…

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By Elias Savada (386) for Film International (130) on 10 Jul 2016

Music and cinema are both universal languages…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 07 Jul 2016

As more than one of the performers notes, music transcends culture, history and even language…

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By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 07 Jul 2016

ultimately unsatisfying, offering a little bit of this and a little bit of that without ever making much of an impression…

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By Josh Terry (603) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 07 Jul 2016

Music of Strangers explores that pensive relationship between art and politics, detailing the role of music as an expression and a search for…

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By Robert Harris (1) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 07 Jul 2016

This unrealized focus is not to say that The Music of Strangers is not worth seeing…

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By Curtis Cook (17) for Willamette Week (516) on 06 Jul 2016

Within the first few moments of this film, some of the world's best musicians are seen playing an eclectic tune in an open-air market adjacent…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 06 Jul 2016

Home, as they say, is where the heart is -- and for celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the fascinating, globe-spanning family of musicians he…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 06 Jul 2016

Ma's project and Neville's film celebrate the joy that can be achieved when people put aside their regional differences to create something joyous…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 Jul 2016

The film rarely demonstrates how the ideal actually works in practice. Personally, I would have liked to see a savage breast or two being charmed…

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By Susan G. Cole (137) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 05 Jul 2016

At its heart is the iconic Ma himself, intellectually and creatively restless, impatient (watch him roll his eyes when he's introduced via…

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By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 05 Jul 2016

As generously global as it is intensely introspective, this is the finest pure-music documentary since 2012's A Band Called Death…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 04 Jul 2016

The result is enjoyable, but feels perhaps a bit slight, as if, with a little more time, more depth may have been achieved…

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By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Jun 2016

Commendable intentions be damned; one can't hear the music for the self-applauding…

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By Jonathan W. Hickman (551) for The Newnan Times-Herald (58) on 30 Jun 2016

Whether you're interested in this style of music or not, you'd be hard-pressed not to appreciate this rewarding film with Yo-Yo Ma at its heart…

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By Mary Kunz Goldman (2) for Buffalo News (278) on 29 Jun 2016

Watching The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, you have to love [Yo-Yo Ma] for his wide-eyed vision…

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By Leah Pickett (132) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Jun 2016

What drives the narrative is the musicians' mutual desire to forge meaningful connections across cultures, an affirmative answer to Leonard…

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By Doug B (278) on 28 Jun 2016

Can't wait to see it again. A masterpiece…

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By Karen E (99) on 25 Jun 2016

Apart from the absolutely wonderful music, this is a movie with real heart…

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By Bhbarry (206) on 25 Jun 2016

The Music of Strangers: Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble is a documentary covering over 16 years of Yo Yo Ma and a group of musicians from…

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