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A thought-provoking and graceful portrait of a tenacious peace warrior whose frankness is his greatest weapon.Read the full review
It's an intriguing portrait, but it makes no pretense at objectivity, erring on the side of hero worship.Read the full review
More hagiography than history, Heather Rae's long-in-production portrait of Native American activist and poet John Trudell has the uncritically admiring feel of authorized biography.Read the full review
No one in the film has a bad word to say about Mr. Trudell, despite his 17,000-page F.B.I. dossier; and by the time Robert Redford assures us that meeting him is not dissimilar to meeting the Dalai Lama, you may feel that all this worship does not do justice to an unusually stormy and complicated life.Read the full review
Anyone looking for history lessons from Rae's documentary will have to be patient and alert enough to pick through the poetry.Read the full review
Feels padded in some places, truncated in others. It also feels too respectful, especially when its subject is such a deep thinker and questioner of authority.Read the full review
Unfortunately, absent a more objective context, Trudell's gnomic utterances do little to support those sentiments. By preaching so relentlessly to the choir, this film misses an opportunity to show what got them to sing in the first place.Read the full review
