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One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern

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80 Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir It's a deeply flawed film but also an important one.Read Full Review »
60 LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan The film's greatest asset and strongest selling point is the former senator from South Dakota himself, thoughtful and articulate at age 83, who talks candidly, even eloquently, about his political career.Read Full Review »
50 The New York Times: Janet Maslin Still, as the documentary plods past the two-hour mark, much of Mr. McGovern's legend seems dependent on Nixon's faults, and even the Democrat's political supporters, with hindsight's many gifts, can't infuse his persona with any more dynamism.Read Full Review »
30 Village Voice: Michael Atkinson Amy Goodman's narration, though correct, has a petulant, Spanish Inquisition ring to it, only made more childish by the film's cheap idealization of the senator from South Dakota as some kind of pacifist Savonarola, overdue for canonization.Read Full Review »
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