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75Showing the movie would be a great way to open a debate. I would love to hear its charges answered as clearly as they're stated.
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75Thought-provoking.
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60The subject can sharply divide even the most liberal-minded critics, but it's no secret on which side of the debate filmmakers Bathsheba Ratzkoff and Sut Jhally find themselves.
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The result may be better suited for classroom viewing than for theatrical exhibition, but that's a tribute to the movie's instructive value.
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This one-sided account brings some lesser-known offenses to light and advances a scenario that is bold and detailed. But it is hardly dispassionate.
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Often, the movie feels like sitting through a college lecture class.
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50The main problem with The Promised Land is that Jhally and Ratzkoff are eager to foster dissent, but not to invite it into their own movie. Their talking heads sound rehearsed and repetitive, and the righteous anger dissipates without a contrary opinion to provide a ceiling.
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50Pedantic, humorless and one-sided -- qualities that won't encourage exposure beyond the activist left.
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KT10Excellent documentary bringing out the views of the better informed individuals on the palestinian condition.