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Bhutto has not been reviewed by Broad National Press
Mike Hale, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...packs an impressive amount of information into its 111 minutes.... The film's style can make the acquisition of all that data a slightly exhausting experience.... Explanatory graphics and titles move by a little too quickly, and the film never stops talking..." (Read the full review...) 400 words, 12/03/10 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a fascinating story, and too epic to be contained here. But the directors certainly capture our interest, even as they leave us wanting to know more." (Read the full review...) 131 words, 12/03/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a thorough and involving documentary... doesn't shy away from the controversies surrounding its subject, [though] it is very much on Benazir's side." (Read the full review...) 527 words, 12/03/10 Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...essential viewing for contextualizing the $15 billion in foreign aid that the United States has sent to the country since Sept. 11, 2001." (Read the full review...) 276 words, 12/10/10 Nick Schager, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...conveys a forceful sense of tectonic social and geopolitical shifts, as well as the courageous, heartbreaking personal sacrifices its subject made in service to both her homeland and ideals." (Read the full review...) 212 words, 12/01/10
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: MODERATE (cg) "...an exhaustive, if sometimes exhausting, look at a larger-than-life figure." (Read the full review...) 505 words, 12/17/10 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Part biography, part idol worship, 'Bhutto' is a bullet train through South Asia, chronicling its subject's 54 years, a period of unrest in her nation and family." (Read the full review...) 546 words, 01/28/11 Andrew Penkalski, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Considering this long history, director Duane Baughman's exhaustive, fact-based methods are somewhat of an inevitable necessity." (Read the full review...) 237 words, 01/28/11 Ethan Gilsdorf, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an effective if textbook amalgam of archival footage and talking heads. The interviewees are an impressive A-list of some 30 historians, politicians, family members, and friends... No surprise, the portrait here is largely reverential..." (Read the full review...) 499 words, 12/17/10 Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a vitally important story, one that anyone with any interest in democracy and modern Muslim states should approach with a full complement of wits." (Read the full review...) 290 words, 01/07/11 John Hartl, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a fascinating documentary..." (Read the full review...) 315 words, 03/04/11
Nick Schager, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...conveys a forceful sense of tectonic social and geopolitical shifts, as well as the courageous, heartbreaking personal sacrifices its subject made in service to both her homeland and ideals." (Read the full review...) 212 words, 12/01/10 Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "This well-researched documentary gives viewers a useful history of Pakistan since it broke away from India in 1947, as well as the inside story of the Bhutto family..." (Read the full review...) 165 words, 12/16/10 Ed Gonzalez, Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a comprehensive yet candy-coated crash course in Pakistani politics with only occasional hints at the corruption and fundamentalism that have continually ravaged the country's lower class." (Read the full review...) 695 words, 12/01/10
Mike Hale, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...packs an impressive amount of information into its 111 minutes.... The film's style can make the acquisition of all that data a slightly exhausting experience.... Explanatory graphics and titles move by a little too quickly, and the film never stops talking..." (Read the full review...) 400 words, 12/03/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a thorough and involving documentary... doesn't shy away from the controversies surrounding its subject, [though] it is very much on Benazir's side." (Read the full review...) 527 words, 12/03/10
John Anderson, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "...as thorough a history of the late Pakistani prime minister and her country as one can imagine... skews a bit triumphal, perhaps, but it's an even-handed history... not just coherent but exciting." (Read the full review...) 544 words, 01/28/10 Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "...shapes the wide-ranging material into a comprehensive and compelling narrative.... skirts the overtly hagiographic, [but] is a clearly favorable treatment of the Pakistani leader's mixed legacy..." (Read the full review...) 541 words, 01/25/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a thorough and involving documentary... doesn't shy away from the controversies surrounding its subject, [though] it is very much on Benazir's side." (Read the full review...) 527 words, 12/03/10 Mike Hale, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...packs an impressive amount of information into its 111 minutes.... The film's style can make the acquisition of all that data a slightly exhausting experience.... Explanatory graphics and titles move by a little too quickly, and the film never stops talking..." (Read the full review...) 400 words, 12/03/10
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