United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
Hubbard and Schulman | Release Date: June 6, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJul 5, 2012
And by exploring the lighter side of communal action - the camaraderie and cruising that turned weekly meetings into what one member calls "a combination of serious politics and joyful living" - he uncouples the gravity of the cause from the perceived humorlessness of advocacy. Foot soldiers for the dying, the members of Act Up never forgot how to live. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJul 7, 2012
Though the film sets out only to chronicle the group's life, not the history of the disease, some viewers will wish for a parting message making sense of where things stand today, with the disease mostly vanished from headlines but still destroying lives around the world. Read full review
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VarietyJohn AndersonJul 4, 2012
If the AIDS crisis has crested, it's due in large part to the radical advocacy group so intelligently portrayed in United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, a documentary that could have been a lot angrier but aims to educate rather than agitate. Read full review
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Village VoiceMelissa AndersonJul 4, 2012
Crucially, the variety of interviewees in Hubbard's doc - men and women of different races and classes - underscores just how diverse ACT UP was in its heyday. Read full review
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