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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 Gordon B (705) on 11 Nov 2008

Eye opening, motivational, and uplifting…

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By Kisha D (1) on 08 Nov 2008

Insightful, first hand account of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, culled from home video footage taken by two aspiring rappers who were too…

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By Brandon H (695) on 03 Nov 2008

There just wasn't enough footage actually shot during the hurricane to make it a true spectacle…

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By Brian E (261) on 02 Nov 2008

Pretty powerful display of how jacked up our priorities are in this country…

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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 Kristal C (562) on 31 Oct 2008

The most important documentary you'll see this year…

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By Tom A (654) on 29 Oct 2008

A few days before Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans resident Kimberly Roberts bought a second-hand Hi8 video camera -- then, because she had no…

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By Lynne M (61) on 28 Oct 2008

The hand held film will frustrate some but the intimate life of one family's survival, set backs, sorrow, humor, and hope tells the real story…

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By Ben A (305) on 25 Oct 2008

Damning ground-level portrait of how tragic Katrina ultimately turned out to be. Second only to Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke…

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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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