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100A gripping thriller whose terror -- unfortunately -- comes from real life.
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100Comprehensive and blisteringly paced.
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90Macdonald's singular achievement is to restore -- through interviews and archival footage -- the dead to such vivid life, you weep for them and for their families, who have only memories to live off.
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90It could be described as the most gripping political thriller to hit the big screen in many years, although given the events it depicts through interviews, photographs, and news footage, the words "gripping" and "thriller" have inappropriately frivolous and commercial associations.
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90This utterly compelling behind-the-scenes account of that horrific event unfolds with a potent sense of authority and authenticity.
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89Scores its ultimate coup de grace though its interviews. Macdonald has lined up an amazing collection of interviewees.
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88Especially timely in light of the current escalation in Palestinian-Israeli aggressions, but this is one sad story that would pack a staggering punch in any political climate.
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88Gripping, made more intense by the knowledge that all is true.
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88Macdonald's film brilliantly telescopes the '70s, an era when every physical action had its equal and opposite political reaction.
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80It's a shocking story, made all the more so by the film's final revelation, an outrageous allegation no one even bothers to deny.
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80Never less than gripping as an account of what happened and what went terribly wrong.
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80Straightforward but nonetheless powerful documentary.
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80The film, built of interviews with participants, is fast-paced, utterly absorbing and ultimately tragic.
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75Grips the attention and is exciting and involving. I recommend it on that basis--and also because of the new information it contains.
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75Sweeps us back into a terrifying and desperate string of events and makes us feel them - and, more crucially, understand them as well.
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75A gripping reminder of a brutal chapter of 20th-century history.
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75Impassioned and well-crafted, One Day in September is also grueling.
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70Nothing, however, can diminish the sense of horror we feel at what happened that day in September, while Macdonald's revelations and the candid comments he elicits more than make up for the film's less successful elements.
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Given the power of its story, One Day in September seems at times to be pushing too hard.
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60One Day in September does "being there" very well -- I just wish director Macdonald had spent a little more time explaining why we should want to be there in the first place.
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