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64 out of 100

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8.4 out of 10

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  • Summary: This documentary examines George McGovern's bold and grassroots presidential campaign of 1972. (First Run Features)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Lively documentary about McGovern's disastrous run for the US presidency. The interviews with him are worth the price of admission.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    60
    The film's greatest asset and strongest selling point is the former senator from South Dakota himself, thoughtful and articulate at age 83, who talks candidly, even eloquently, about his political career.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    30
    Amy Goodman's narration, though correct, has a petulant, Spanish Inquisition ring to it, only made more childish by the film's cheap idealization of the senator from South Dakota as some kind of pacifist Savonarola, overdue for canonization.

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 1 out of 2
  1. StackL.
    10
    This is a very important historical/political film. It's an alternative look at the past 50 years. The interviews (especially McGovern & Gloria Steinem) are great. Music is cool, too.… Expand
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  2. TerryA.
    2
    Interesting in the same manner as watching a train wreck.
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