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Variety
"Too decent to be president" was the label stuck to former senator and 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern, the self-effacing subject of Stephen Vittoria's One Bright Shining Moment. If "decent" means "polite," then the movie makes no effort to emulate its subject. Full Review
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
It's a deeply flawed film but also an important one. Full Review
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
Lively documentary about McGovern's disastrous run for the US presidency. The interviews with him are worth the price of admission. Full Review
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
Instructive but aggressively biased liberal history lesson. Full Review
Janet Maslin
The New York Times
Still, as the documentary plods past the two-hour mark, much of Mr. McGovern's legend seems dependent on Nixon's faults, and even the Democrat's political supporters, with hindsight's many gifts, can't infuse his persona with any more dynamism. Full Review
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