The Manzanar Fishing Club
From Barbed Wire to Barbed Hooks | Release Date: September 14, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonSep 12, 2012
The historical road less traveled - shot in re-enactments that are obviously familiar with the terrain - is beguiling enough. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckSep 15, 2012
It's a nice little human interest story, but hardly seems worthy of this full-length treatment. Read full review
50
New York PostLou LumenickSep 13, 2012
The Manzanar Fishing Club has enough interesting footage for perhaps a 15-minute segment of a TV news magazine. Beyond that, my eyes started to glaze over with endless talk about rods, reels and bait. Read full review
50
The New York TimesDavid DeWittSep 13, 2012
The time with these survivors is appreciated, as who knows how much longer we'll have access to this living history. But I'd rather have heard them describe something other than bait, or how their fishing rods advanced from willow to bamboo to items from the Sears catalog. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSep 12, 2012
At its best, the film uses fishing as a window into the internment experience. At its worst, it uses the internment story as the backdrop for a documentary on trout fishing. Read full review
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