Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
International Film Circuit | Release Date: September 14, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
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70
Village VoiceAaron HillisSep 13, 2011
Granito becomes both a humanitarian legal thriller and a quest to find justice through cinema. Read full review
50
The New York TimesPaul BrunickSep 13, 2011
Ms. Yates's moral convictions and agitprop idealizations come far too easily. Granito is less rough-edged than its guerrilla-film predecessor, but it shares a spirit of simplistic revolutionary solidarity. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberSep 12, 2011
The film tracks the history of the country, but viewers may feel the documentarian inserts herself too much into the story. Read full review
40
Time OutNick SchagerSep 13, 2011
The repeated sight of people watching video monitors or communicating with others via laptops becomes a stilted, gimmicky affectation, and there are only so many times you can watch a camera panning and zooming over still photos before your tolerance for the Ken Burns effect reaches its limit. Read full review
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Slant MagazineChuck BowenSep 14, 2011
The key to good, or at least effective, agitprop (and Oliver Stone and Michael Moore know this) is that, yes, it must simplify matters, but it necessitates canny presentation so that it may truly get into viewers' blood streams and rile them. Read full review
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