Louder Than a Bomb

Name: Louder Than a Bomb
Genre: Documentary
Released: May 18, 2011
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 77

2011

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Balcony Releasing | Release Date: May 18, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: Louder Than a Bomb tells the story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare to compete in the world’s largest youth slam. By turns hopeful and heartbreaking, the film captures the turbulent lives of these unforgettable kids, exploring the ways writing shapes their world, and vice versa. While the topics they tackle are oftenLouder Than a Bomb tells the story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare to compete in the world’s largest youth slam. By turns hopeful and heartbreaking, the film captures the turbulent lives of these unforgettable kids, exploring the ways writing shapes their world, and vice versa. While the topics they tackle are often deeply personal, what they put into their poems—and what they get out of them—is universal: the defining work of finding one’s voice. (Balcony Releasing)… Expand

Director: Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 99 min

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Noel Murray

May 19, 2011

Louder Than A Bomb is a different kind of high-school movie, brimming with life and hope instead of social-climbing, bullying, and furtive first kisses. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Apr 30, 2011

Siskel and Jacobs focus on the performances, which are inspiring and electrifying. Read full review

Ty Burr

Jun 5, 2011

Think of it as "Glee" without music. Without a net, too. Read full review

Ernest Hardy

May 17, 2011

The movie floats to another realm entirely when the cameras go into the home of Nova Venerable, a smart, eloquent, gorgeous girl whose love for her special-needs younger brother and their hardworking single mom is expressed in terms that sidestep the formulaic verbal and physical bombast of so many of her peers. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Jun 16, 2011

The real value of poetry - of the contest itself - is not revealed until the closing credits, when we see the impressive list of colleges that the movie's four subjects have gone on to. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

May 18, 2011

The poetry has more in common with rap lyrics than Baudelaire, but that just increases the fun. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

May 17, 2011

The kids pick up the filmmakers' lyrical slack more often than not, but this ode to the power of verse could really use a redraft. Read full review

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