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100Told with such sadness and exaltation, such mastery of image and sound, that watching it makes you feel renewed and hopeful.
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100A documentary that is as thoughtful and inspiring as the music it celebrates.
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100Magnificent.
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90In Amandla!, history doesn't just come alive--it sings, dances, and issues a passionate plea for justice and equality. The film joyously celebrates music as both a means to an end and an end unto itself.
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Hirsch edits segments together to merge disparate voices, showing how for this movement, music was no universal language -- it was specific, pointed, and almost paranormal in its power.
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90It leaves you stirred and uplifted not only by its music but also by the determination and courage of the people who sang and danced it on the way to a freer life.
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90The film they have put together is dense with sound and information, but it moves with a swift, lilting rhythm that is of a piece with the musical heritage it explores.
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90Exhaustively informative and powerfully emotional.
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90What songs, what people and what a triumph that their music won in the end.
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89Finds a way to impart this sad history while raising our spirits at the same time.