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By Lynn E (8) on 18 Mar 2012

I'm a huge fan of The Swell Season, but I found this doc boring. The performance pieces were nice, but that's not enough to carry the movie…

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By John A (1,813) on 18 Mar 2012

I'm a huge fan of The Swell Season, but I found this doc boring. The performance pieces were nice, but that's not enough to carry the movie…

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By Bonnie S (133) on 18 Mar 2012

I thought The Swell Season was pretty awkward and boring. I only recommend it if you're super interested in the film Once and it's aftermath…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 17 Feb 2012

While the film may be monochrome, every colour of emotion is represented here, from elation in the creative process to anxiousness and…

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By Guy Dixon (19) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 13 Feb 2012

The question subtly, craftily documented in The Swell Season is whether the fans or Hansard himself want to see the singer cast in this new…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 13 Feb 2012

Most vividly, The Swell Season captures the insistent, borderline-disturbing energy of fandom at its most rabid and psychically intrusive…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 13 Feb 2012

Like Once, this film is a tender little piece of heartbreak…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 13 Feb 2012

As shown in this disarming and intimate documentary named after their band, the oddness of actually being sought-after was something neither…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 13 Feb 2012

What emerges is a poignant commentary on the uneasy commingling of love and fame…

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By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Feb 2012

To viewers without a preexisting emotional relationship to the couple and their saga, that everyday angst is just banal…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 13 Feb 2012

It's an eloquent summation of the complexities and strength of their bond, and a poetic cap to the pair's fictional and real ups and downs…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Feb 2012

It's too focused on capturing a bygone moment and portraying it as the present, while the band and the couple have inevitably moved on, to…

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By Ronnie Scheib (420) for Variety (12,700) on 13 Feb 2012

Swell never really gathers momentum, remaining a collection of moments, some more privileged than others…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 13 Feb 2012

The Swell Season emerges as an incisive cut at fame's effect on the real-life music and romance of Hansard and Irglova…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for New Orleans Times-Picayune (573) on 13 Feb 2012

It's sadly and tenderly honest -- and so are Hansard and Irglova, as they generously and matter-of-factly open up to the camera…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 13 Feb 2012

The movie looks beautiful, its sublime b&w cinematography signaling a fading dream…

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By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 Feb 2012

There are some compelling performance moments, and it's sad to watch these talented and basically nice people drift apart…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Feb 2012

Ultimately, though, they never cohere into something more than a moderately engaging for-fans-only tour diary…

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By Hee Young P (4) on 15 Jan 2012

Watched with Shanu and Kiran at its premier during a Doxa festival showing in West Vancouver…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 12 Jan 2012

A poignant documentary that tracks the fast rise and slow fall of the Hansard-Irglova fairy tale, through both tunes and tears…

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