Children bumps into a few dead spots along its irreverent way... But casual sophistication and wiggy Australian self-awareness give this product of unreconstructed bourgeois decadence its idiosyncratic charm.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
A gloss on the disillusion that came with the embracing of communist ideals that is part playful farce, part dark satire, this unclassifiable film, both comic and strange, always holds your attention even when it doesn't seem to know where it's going.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
This comedy has less to do with narrative than with sheer chutzpah and a first-rate cast. It manages to be irreverently funny despite a subject that is no laughing matter.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Laura Miller
Children of the Revolution won't leave its audiences weak with laughter, but it should have the most perceptive among them arguing in the aisles.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
The movie is one of those brilliant and rare blends of paradoxical elements -- both the tragedy and the folly of history, the weight of inheritance, the pressure of the ideal, lots of fairly steamy sex, even a secret agent or two.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Not only is it based on a fairly original premise, but the humor exhibits a distinct edge.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Duncan zips through five decades and dozens of characters without reducing the participants to cliches or slogans. A remarkable cast helps him to keep focused on the core of the piece.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Jane Horwitz
Using a cockeyed, surreal style harking back to Monty Python-ism, writer- director Peter Duncan illuminates the tragedy of all true believers whose faith depends upon keeping ears and eyes firmly shut.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
Uneven but also unflaggingly lively, the movie presents F. Murray Abraham as a corseted and bewigged Stalin in expository bits whose broadness recalls the Billy Wilder-scripted Soviet satires ("Ninotchka" and "One, Two, Three") without being as funny. [16 May 1997, Pg.02.D]Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
It is enormously ambitious -- maybe too much so, since it ranges so widely between styles and strategies that it distracts from its own flow.Read Full Review »
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