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By Karina Montgomery (580) for Cinerina (549) on 16 Feb 2008

A truly beautiful tribute to the redemptive powers of art, music, and dance, and the insidious destructiveness that trickles down in war to…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 11 Feb 2008

The film's artsy surface diminishes its impact [but] tells a story that needs to be told repeatedly…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 10 Feb 2008

The filmmaking style is annoyingly slick, but the testimonies of these children are excruciatingly moving…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 31 Jan 2008

[Dominic Fine's] camera captures beautiful Ugandan locations -- and some equally beautiful character moments…

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By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

Because no one dares to call a film about suffering children boring, Fine and Nix slack on analysis and investigation and concentrate on gorgeous…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 29 Jan 2008

These kids are amazing in the most literal sense of the word, and you will never forget them…

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By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 23 Jan 2008

Relies a little too much on the old formula of the underdog sports movie, but it has a lot more substance to it than that…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 17 Jan 2008

War/Dance complicates documentary tradition, trying to express events that seem beyond expression…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 08 Jan 2008

This War/Dance is among the most affecting films I've seen all year; it cuts to the core of being and gives individual faces to sorrow and to hope…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 04 Dec 2007

The music offers the northern Ugandan children a chance to heal from their fear and pain--that part of the film cannot be questioned…

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By Andrew Wright (312) for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (891) on 30 Nov 2007

Children in dire situations can be a tricky, quasi-exploitive subject for filmmakers…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 09 Nov 2007

The core of this week's African catastrophe documentary is so simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting, you only want to thank the Fines…

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By Gene Seymour (406) for Newsday (2,345) on 08 Nov 2007

There isn't enough uplift, gratuitous or otherwise, in the world to make you forget the graphic testimony of children compelled by rebel forces…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 07 Nov 2007

The cinematography is striking. The music is mesmerizing. And the triumph of the underdog team against all odds is extra satisfying…

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By Frank Lovece (341) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 06 Nov 2007

Comes off with a prettying slickness that, while it certainly doesn't negate the horror, tends to belie the reality…

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By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Mar 2007

Filmmakers Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine continue the Hollywood insult of looking at Africa as if it were a high-fashion runway…

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By Ray Greene (127) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 25 Jan 2007

The mechanics of Spellbound transplanted to the site of Ugandan civil slaughter becomes a testament to human renewal…

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By Mark Bell (109) for Film Threat (5,156) on 25 Jan 2007

My issues with this film involve the stylistic nature of the documentary, which, for example, puts the camera in extremely intrusive spots…

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