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Critic Reviews
Mar 5, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It’s difficult to think of any film that speaks to our moment as strikingly as this documentary does, a quality evident early on. ... [Scenes of men's] complaints about, for instance, the pain of having to listen regularly to a woman’s voice are in their hellish way priceless and not to be missed. The same goes for all four hours of this never less than mesmerizing film.
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Mar 6, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Excellent, excruciating. ... Documentarian Nanette Burstein (The Kid Stays in the Picture, the incredible On the Ropes) deftly interweaves historical background, intimate behind-the-scenes campaign footage, and great hindsight interviews from her campaign staff. But the core of the series is Burstein’s fresh sit-down with Hillary herself, who emerges in both conversation and candid footage as someone who’s looser and warmer than even her fans might suspect.
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Mar 6, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Hillary is about Hillary Clinton, yes. But it’s also a recap of how America has viewed feminism and women seeking power during the late-20th and early-21st centuries. That makes it essential viewing. ... You might not agree with her. But after watching Hillary, you may be able to do something that America has had a really hard time doing over the years: You may understand her.
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Mar 5, 2020
Season 1 Review:
A rather sleek and highly watchable version of the joys and anguish of being Hillary Rodham Clinton, culminating in her electoral loss to Donald Trump. What emerges is an artfully structured personal history of modern feminism, told in the context of a country and a culture still grappling with a daunting degree of gender bias. ... Burstein is not here simply to commiserate or adulate, though the film necessarily serves measures of both. She thoughtfully and concisely weaves the backstage campaign efforts with Clinton’s biography.
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Jan 27, 2020
Season 1 Review:
There are very few facts in "Hillary" that other documentaries, whether solid or entirely unreliable, haven't covered in some fashion. But what Burstein offers that previous works don't is an emotional journey through Clinton's life in her words and those of her family and friends, some 45 of them (including Barack Obama, her main Democratic rival in the 2008 election) and not all of them entirely without criticism.
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Mar 6, 2020
Season 1 Review:
As a piece of documentary filmmaking, "Hillary" is excellent, seamlessly weaving interviews with new and archival footage into a riveting life story. ... TThere is no victory at the end of "Hillary." We were all there: She lost in 2016. Narratively that means the documentary has a weaker ending.
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Mar 6, 2020
Season 1 Review:
At its best, it puts its subject in the context of not just one consequential election night but decades of slow-changing cultural history. ... The later hours of “Hillary” are less revealing. In part, it’s the much-told material. ... “Hillary” is unlikely to settle any arguments about that woman. But it offers an interesting history of those years.
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Jan 27, 2020
Season 1 Review:
As a whole, “Hillary” is a fittingly messy, compelling portrait of an equally messy, compelling person with some moments that will no doubt provide even more fodder for the endless speculation about her private thoughts and motivations. But it could have been so much more.
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