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Moving Midway
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79 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen M. Hart
    100
    In its 98 minutes, film critic Godfrey Cheshire's documentary Moving Midway records an amazing architectural feat, and that's the least of its virtues.
  2. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    91
    In Moving Midway, Cheshire chronicles not only the history of the move but also of the family members, past and present, who occupied the place, and, most pointedly, the slaves who worked its fields, some of whom turn out to be related.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    90
    May not advance any grand new thesis about the South and its history, but it turns an old house into a rich and strange repository of local knowledge.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    80
    Cheshire refuses to look away, no matter how complicated things get. In fact, it's the tangled, tortured roots that most inspire him, turning this deeply personal film into a potent meditation on our nation's past.
  5. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    80
    Moving Midway is thrilling.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    80
    His engaging chronicle of the physical, historical and psychological effect of the undertaking, is also an invitation for a film buff to meditate on the antebellum South's mythic power in stories and film.
  7. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    This is a deceptive film. It starts in one direction and discovers a better one. Cheshire is a dry, almost dispassionate narrator, and that is good; preaching about his discoveries would sound wrong.
  8. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    75
    The oddly compelling documentary Moving Midway is an engineering tale combined with a family history and a ghost story.
  9. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Andrea Gronvall
    70
    What begins as a leave-taking turns into a homecoming that reflects the mixed-race society of the modern south.
  10. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    60
    Uniquely Southern documentary has become surprisingly timely this election year.
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