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By Rick Groen (1,350) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 12 Feb 2009

Spike Lee's voluminous When the Levees Broke proved a thorough indictment, a compilation of tragic and appalling facts encyclopedically catalogued…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 06 Dec 2008

Slowly builds power to devastating effect…

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By Wally Hammond (134) for Time Out (7,510) on 05 Dec 2008

Essential, startling and distressing insight into what it was like to be in the eye of the Katrina storm if you were a poor, black resident…

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By Simon Jordan (2) for Film4 (1,522) on 05 Dec 2008

Trouble The Water tells a fascinating story with some amazing imagery, shot when the floods were at their height, but somehow loses something…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 05 Dec 2008

The footage - edited and augmented by Michael Moore's collaborators Tia Lessin and Carl Deal - is unpolished, but the stories and commentary…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 05 Dec 2008

Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's movie about Hurricane Katrina is, in its way, quite as powerful as Spike Lee's massive documentary on the subject…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 05 Dec 2008

I could call the film an important document, but it's far more rowdy and vital, and amazingly unpretentious, than that makes it sound…

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By Rob Daniel (202) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 05 Dec 2008

Trouble the Water employs Kim Roberts' startling camcorder footage to reveal how little New Orleans prepared its citizens for the coming disaster…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 05 Dec 2008

Later, unfortunately, the film's energy drains like the waters, leaving a wrack of tired folk wisdoms and ear-injuring rap songs…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 05 Dec 2008

Riveting, emotionally engaging and frequently astonishing documentary that tells an important story and will make you laugh, cry and seethe with rage…

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By Michael Smith (475) for Tulsa World (603) on 14 Nov 2008

The film is a lasting document on the subjects of Hurricane Katrina, tragedy and bureaucratic incompetence…

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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 01 Nov 2008

For the 3rd anniversary of Katrina comes a gripping point of view about the disaster and its continuing impact on the people of New Orleans…

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By Joe Leydon (915) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 31 Oct 2008

You can't help wanting -- and maybe needing -- to read into her indomitable spiritedness something like a reason for hope…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 31 Oct 2008

Enraging and inspiring. It boasts the miraculous quality of finding a letter in a bottle and discovering that its authors are alive…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 21 Oct 2008

It's not quite a Grapes of Wrath for our times, but Trouble the Water does give a voice to people America didn't see or listen to before Katrina…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 21 Oct 2008

Some documentaries change how you see the world. Some change how you see yourself. Trouble the Water... astonishingly, does both…

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By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 16 Oct 2008

Directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal make jarring cuts from Roberts' personal footage to the mainstream news reports, emphasizing the unreal…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 16 Oct 2008

The film works as well as it does thanks to Kimberly Roberts' magnetic screen presence…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 16 Oct 2008

Trouble the Water is a crucial film, one of the best of the decade…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Sep 2008

The movie is certainly political, but it's also existential: It chronicles a struggle to survive that transcends bureaucratic incompetence…

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