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8.4 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

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  1. StackL.
    Nov 6, 2005
    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.
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  2. TerryA.
    Oct 31, 2005
    2
    Interesting in the same manner as watching a train wreck.
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Metascore
64 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    70
    "Too decent to be president" was the label stuck to former senator and 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern, the self-effacing subject of Stephen Vittoria's One Bright Shining Moment. If "decent" means "polite," then the movie makes no effort to emulate its subject.
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  2. The New Republic
    Reviewed by: Stanley Kauffmann
    80
    A lively, long, intelligent documentary.
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  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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