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A conventional, rather shallow up-by-your-bootstraps drama, but with a difference.Full Review

Stephen Holden
The New York Times

Long on hero worship and woefully short on insight, Lula: Son of Brazil oozes good intentions, but it wouldn't look out of place in a retrospective of early Soviet workerist cinema.Full Review

Ella Taylor
NPR

The screenplay by Daniel Tendler, Fernando Bonassi and Lula biographer Parana succumbs to many of the most unfortunate narrative tendencies of biopics, including a proclivity for piling on incident after incident as a substitute for real character insight.Full Review

Robert Koehler
Variety

The film is more testimonial than drama.Full Review

Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor

A sense of the man himself seems absent in Fábio Barreto's portrait, however, and other than a rally scene with prescient Occupy Wall Street overtones, you're mostly left with facts, dates and iconic poses.Full Review

David Fear
Time Out New York
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