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A sensitively wrought work.
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An astonishingly intimate and painful coming-of-age story.
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You don't have to know Chile's bloody history to be moved by the poignant new film Machuca, the first movie made by a Chilean about the country's 1973 military coup.
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A fine, exciting film that makes a bloody historical event live all over again by showing it through the eyes of children on the edges of the conflict.
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Machuca is a quiet film, moving sadly toward its inevitable climax, the final scenes a lesson in the methods by which the military restores order to a divided country.
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Packs a quiet wallop.
80
Richly human in focus, the drama steadily cranks up its political and emotional charge.
80
Wood's film works, first and foremost, as a powerful character drama; it's not trying to teach historical or ideological lessons.
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One of those special films that broadens and deepens as it goes on.
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Tender, funny and smart, Machuca is that rare discovery, an incisive political parable that also succeeds as a drama of sharply drawn individuals.
