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  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Cinema Libre Studio
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Cinema Libre Studio
  • 1 h 18 m

Summary In January 2009, Oliver Stone travelled to Venezuela to interview President Hugo Chavez, and examine the way Chavez has been portrayed in the U.S. media. Was Chavez really the “anti-American” force the media claimed he was? Once the journey began, however, Stone and his crew found themselves going beyond Venezuela to several other countr...

Directed By: Oliver Stone

Written By: Mark Weisbrot, Tariq Ali

  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Cinema Libre Studio
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Cinema Libre Studio
  • 1 h 18 m

South of the Border

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
45
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary In January 2009, Oliver Stone travelled to Venezuela to interview President Hugo Chavez, and examine the way Chavez has been portrayed in the U.S. media. Was Chavez really the “anti-American” force the media claimed he was? Once the journey began, however, Stone and his crew found themselves going beyond Venezuela to several other countr...

Directed By: Oliver Stone

Written By: Mark Weisbrot, Tariq Ali

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
45
26% Positive
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53% Mixed
10 Reviews
21% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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26% Positive
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53% Mixed
10 Reviews
21% Negative
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83
Yes, Stone gets cozy with Hugo Chávez, soft-pedaling the Venezuelan president's crackdown tendencies, but he also captures South America in a paradigm shift, wrenching itself free of centuries of colonial control. The film is rose-colored agitprop, but it catches a current of history.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
75
But to be fair, Stone doesn't seem even to think he's offering the last word here. Rather, he's trying to offer the first word, or at least a first opportunity to hear the other side, unfiltered by television media.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
60
The aural and visual overload that marks most of the director's work is here in spades--few documentaries look and sound so distinctive.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
50
Three minutes into the film, we feel the sharpness of Stone's ax to grind. It's dull to be told what to think.
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40
Stone embarrasses himself by backing the wrong horse and then making a weak case for him.
By Mark Keizer FULL REVIEW
30
The 70-minute movie -- which was co-written by the British-Pakistani commentator Tariq Ali, author of the 2006 study "Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope," and photographed in part by docu-doyen Albert Maysles -- is amateur night as cinema, as lopsided and cheerleadery as its worldview.
By Richard Corliss FULL REVIEW
0
South of the Border's subjects are masters at cooking bullshit, and Stone just eats it up.
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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25% Mixed
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13% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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63% Positive
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25% Mixed
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13% Negative
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Production Company Good Apple Productions, Ixtlan, Muse Productions, New Element Productions, Pentagrama Films
Release Date Jun 25, 2010
Duration 1 h 18 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.southoftheborderdoc.com/
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