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Fast-paced, riveting and affecting.
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90A superior example of fearless filmmakers in exactly the right place at the right time.
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90An extraordinary piece of electronic history. And a riveting movie
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90Gets viewers inside these tense, emotional and occasionally terrifying events with immediacy and, given the confusion of the time, remarkable clarity.
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89As riveting as a documentary can possibly be, this slim (74-minute) film is also one of the most politically aware films of the year.
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88A remarkable documentary by two Irish filmmakers that is playing in theaters on its way to HBO. It is remarkable because the filmmakers, Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain, had access to virtually everything that happened within the palace during the entire episode.
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88More effort could have been made to fully flesh out the international perspective on this "people's president," but as a play-by-play look at a modern coup, it's an amazing, insightful film.
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88While Bartley and O'Briain flat-out lucked out with this felicitous endeavor, their fearlessness, unobtrusive narration, and lack of Michael Moore man-and-microphone pandering is to be saluted.
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80A gripping example of "You Are There," on the spot journalism, even if it is a little slim when it comes to motives and back stories.
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80Rough-hewn, improvisatory and contentedly lo-fi, the resulting documentary should prove warmly encouraging to embattled progressives of all stripes, and incidentally offers the best political date-movie of the week.
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80Stunning you-are-there account of a grand swindle in the making. Were the coup not such an outrageous and chilling affront to democracy, their documentary would be a gut-busting comedy along the lines of Woody Allen's "Bananas."
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80In addition to reporting a scoop, Bartley and O'Briain do an excellent job in deconstructing the Venezuelan TV news footage of blood, chaos, and rival crowds.
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80Their (Kim Bartley and Donnacha Ó Briain ) remarkable true-life footage makes this 74-minute film as potent as behemoths twice its size.
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80As these tumultuous events play out in the film... they generate the suspense of a smaller-scale "Seven Days in May."
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80Proves again that the best documentaries currently outshine Hollywood features as the most watchable, energizing, and relevant movies around.
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75A fascinating look at events mostly unknown to outsiders.
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75The remarkable footage includes damning evidence of how the media, the people and the army were manipulated. Which leads to that eternal question - if it's not on TV, did it really happen?
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75A fascinating front-row seat for what could be history's shortest-lived coup.
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Remarkable documentary.
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The sensation is dizzying, and you may feel relieved -- certainly the filmmakers do -- when Chavez re-enters the picture. There's a feeling of order restored, but the depiction of political free fall has been unnerving.
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75Mao had it wrong; in ''Revolution,'' political power comes out of the barrel of a TV tube.
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Often gripping footage, and the finished product resembles a taut if at times confusing and inadvertently comic political thriller.
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70Both farcical and deeply troubling, it unfolds with the kind of breathless, minute-by-minute immediacy that only eyewitness reportage can bring.
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HeinerF.10Excellent, all there is to say.
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AliciaP.10