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By Tom Birchenough (50) for The Arts Desk (640) on 05 Jan 2015

In The Overnighters documentarist Jesse Moss found his story and pursued it with remarkable empathy, all in the best traditions of the genre…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Film Threat (5,156) on 05 Jan 2015

Moss lets his characters and their stories unfold, crafting a film from them intuitively through the right interview questions and the art…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 05 Jan 2015

Full of ambush, surprise, illumination, it's a total corker…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Denver Post (1,096) on 19 Dec 2014

Moss uses images of drill towers or blistering flame as visual metaphors for other things transpiring on screen: the fracturing of a family,…

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By Brandon G (240) on 14 Nov 2014

Due to the recent RT changes that have basically ruined my past reviews, I am mostly only giving a rating rather than a full review.…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 13 Nov 2014

Assured, brilliant, compassionate filmmaking…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 13 Nov 2014

A rich and troubling documentary highlight of the year…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Nov 2014

The movie might seem like just another liberal do-gooder profile, yet a shocker ending throws new and disturbing light on the situation, amplifying…

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By Stephanie Merry (410) for Washington Post (9,851) on 13 Nov 2014

The Overnighters is commendable for many reasons, not the least of which is the way it allows complex issues to remain complex…

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By Genae (1) on 11 Nov 2014

I saw this film at Telluride Mountainfilm Festival. It's one of the best verite documentaries I've ever seen…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for National Post (1,405) on 07 Nov 2014

Moss films this tale of economic anxiety and almost pathological compassion with an uncomfortable intensity…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 06 Nov 2014

A sobering must-see, The Overnighters speaks to the eternal dilemma of doing the right thing in a community beset by suspicion and fear…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 06 Nov 2014

Through patience, skill, discretion, and trust, Jesse Moss has taken a seemingly small town story and turned it into both a microcosm of today’s…

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By Ryan B (2,114) on 04 Nov 2014

What starts as a conventional doc about the rough times of one midwest community morphs into a powerful indictment on morality, religion, and…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 03 Nov 2014

This is a damning indictment, a modern-day Grapes of Wrath chronicling nothing short of basic decency's collapse in a depressed environment…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 02 Nov 2014

Acute portraiture - and for a sobering depiction of an America in crisis that looks shockingly close to the desperation of the 1930s…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 31 Oct 2014

The film offers an insightful probe of organized religion and how notions of trust, compassion, forgiveness and redemption sometimes clash…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 31 Oct 2014

Jesse Moss’s documentary The Overnighters is being hailed as a modern-day “Grapes of Wrath,” which, up to a point, it is…

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By Michael Pattison (15) for Film4 (1,522) on 31 Oct 2014

A quietly fascinating and frequently touching account of one man's dogged and possibly naive quest to juggle social, professional and familial duties…

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By Kate Muir (612) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 31 Oct 2014

It's one of those Steinbeck-style stories of migrants, poverty, desperation and hope, a heartbreaking picture of men who still believe they…

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