Domestic Violence
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  • Summary: This documentary by Frederick Wiseman profiles residents of a Tampa shelter for battered women.

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  1. Positive: 13 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
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  1. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: David Denby
    100
    Judged both as reporting and as art -- many of Wiseman's films have a poetic density of structure -- it is a series without parallel in movie history. [11 Feb 2002, p. 92]
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  2. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Results are illuminating, harrowing, and riveting.
  3. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    90
    Wiseman lets the material breathe in a manner unique to the subject.
  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    80
    While maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity, this sad, occasionally horrifying but often inspiring film is among Wiseman's warmest.

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