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Filmmaking at its most fearless, with Ostergaard creating a suspenseful, harrowing account of his original key subject, known only as "Joshua."Full Review

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times

There was no happy ending, but if Burma VJ's account of the efficacy of dictatorship threatens to crush you, the sight of a sturdy young back disappearing into the mountains, returning from a Thailand hideout for another round of bearing witness, should make your heart burst.Full Review

Village Voice

A rich, thought-provoking film.Full Review

A.O. Scott
The New York Times

It's the truth, unshackled and captured against all odds, and it's one of the most powerful documentary films I have ever seen, period.Full Review

Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

Burma VJ' retorts that eyes and ears are everywhere in our ever-tightening global communications mesh. Voices, too, and they get heard. The generals and the ayatollahs have every right to be scared.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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