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Dominican Rep. Shooting Dogs (Beyond the Gates)
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Drama
JOE CONNOR (Hugh Dancy), charismatic and idealistic, is a young man taking a year out. While his friends are backpacking around India or lying on a beach in Thailand, Joe has chosen a "real" experience - teaching in a Rwandan school. He is looking forward to stunning his mates with tales of adventure and life at the sharp end. His enthusiasm for Africa makes him popular with the pupils. To Francois, the school groundsman, Joe is a real ... [+]
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"Though less reassuring and not as dramatically coherent as Hotel Rwanda, it still packs a hard punch." | ||
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"A gripping fictionalized account of a 1994 incident in Rwanda that became a shocking emblem of the Rwandan Hutus' mass slaughter of the Tutsis." | ||
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"Tense and gut-wrenching, Beyond the Gates is a horrifying story told with grace and compassion." | ||
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The greatest failure of the film is its inability to enter into the lives of the Rwandans, Tutsi and Hutu alike. | ||
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"Director Michael Caton-Jones does a great job and John Hurt just absolutely carries the day as the moral center of the story." | ||
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"Convincingly revisits the horror of 1994's civil war in Rwanda." | ||
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"Not a definitive cinematic statement on the Rwandan genocide but certainly a far preferable dramatic treatment of the atrocity than Hotel Rwanda." |
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