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100This series should be sealed in a time capsule. It is on my list of the 10 greatest films of all time, and is a noble use of the medium.
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100The latest installment is packed with surprises and emotion for people who've seen earlier stages of the project, but even newcomers will be fascinated by the vivid glimpses it provides of everything from love and family to political action and the pervasiveness of class distinctions in British life.
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100A truly great and deceptively simple work, redefining the power of film.
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100The latest episode of this ongoing masterpiece of reality TV -- which every seven years revisits a group of English people first interviewed as 7-year-olds in 1964 -- is every bit as enthralling as the earlier ones.
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100This is an amazing record of a group of lives -- and probably more resonant than anyone could have imagined when the project began.
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91An empathetic portrait of humanity on a house-by-house, heart-by-heart basis.
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90That nothing more monumental than an everyday life has occurred to any of the subjects is perhaps the film's most compelling aspect.
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90The 7Up series is thus one of the rare documentaries to have had a positive practical effect on the life of at least one of its subjects.
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90Perhaps the most remarkable documentary project ever undertaken, and certainly the longest, is Michael Apted's Up series, which he began shooting for the BBC in 1962.
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90Time is truly on Apted's side because the passing of time not surprisingly brings a richer, deeper perspective with each new segment.
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When this hugely ambitious project began, it was a longitudinal study of class divisions among English schoolchildren. But time and persistence have turned it into much more.
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90Apted...has the storytelling skills to weave a powerful and poignant snapshot of some decent folks who have become, collectively, Britain's first family.
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8842 Up is filled with truth and poignancy as these people reflect on their first half of their lives, their goals, ambitions, and how they, for the most part, succeeded in reinventing them.
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88The only film sequels in history that just keep getting better.
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88A miracle of data retrieval as the grown schoolchildren are measured against their footage from the earlier films.
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88Offers a welcome continuation of what has proven a fascinating journey both for the film's 11 subjects (three of the 14 opted out of the project this go-round) and its audience.
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