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Raging Dove
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58 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Russell Scott Smith
    75
    Then everything went wrong, thanks to Middle East politics -- as the moving documentary Raging Dove shows.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Janet Maslin
    70
    Bruising but illuminating documentary.
  3. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Fred Camper
    70
    I'm no boxing fan, but there's something admirable about fighter Johar Abu Lashin's love of his sport, chronicled in Duki Dror's tautly constructed 2002 documentary.
  4. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Merle Bertrand
    60
    In a sense, Raging Dove serves as an entirely unintentional, I'm sure, metaphor for peace prospects in his homeland.
  5. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    50
    In the frustrating, underachieving documentary Raging Dove, the filmmakers seem to get shut down every time the film threatens to become interesting.
  6. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Joshua Land
    40
    Raging Dove can't avoid the biodoc pitfall of fixating on its subject's personal saga to the virtual exclusion of all else; by the end it's essentially blaming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Abu Lashin's professional demise.
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