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Raging Dove

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58
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary  |  Foreign

Written by:

Directed by: Duki Dror

Release Date:
Theatrical: April 13, 2005

Running Time: 70 minutes, Color

Origin: Israel

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Johar Abu Lashin

This documentary profiles an Israeli-born Palestinian who has immigrated to America in search of a boxing career.

What The Critics Said

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75

New York Post Russell Scott Smith

Then everything went wrong, thanks to Middle East politics -- as the moving documentary Raging Dove shows.

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70

Chicago Reader Fred Camper

I'm no boxing fan, but there's something admirable about fighter Johar Abu Lashin's love of his sport, chronicled in Duki Dror's tautly constructed 2002 documentary.

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70

The New York Times Janet Maslin

Bruising but illuminating documentary.

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60

Film Threat Merle Bertrand

In a sense, Raging Dove serves as an entirely unintentional, I'm sure, metaphor for peace prospects in his homeland.

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50

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

In the frustrating, underachieving documentary Raging Dove, the filmmakers seem to get shut down every time the film threatens to become interesting.

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40

Village Voice Joshua Land

Raging Dove can't avoid the biodoc pitfall of fixating on its subject's personal saga to the virtual exclusion of all else; by the end it's essentially blaming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Abu Lashin's professional demise.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes

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