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One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern (2005) Movie Reviews
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Salon.com (Andrew O'Hehir)
It's a deeply flawed film but also an important one.
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Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
The film's greatest asset and strongest selling point is the former senator from South Dakota himself, thoughtful and articulate at age 83, who talks candidly, even eloquently, about his political career.
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"Fair" Reviews
Village Voice (Michael Atkinson)
Amy Goodman's narration, though correct, has a petulant, Spanish Inquisition ring to it, only made more childish by the film's cheap idealization of the senator from South Dakota as some kind of pacifist Savonarola, overdue for canonization.
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