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A.O. Scott New York Times 01/14/2011
4/5
A brave and wrenching new documentary from China Go to Full Review Bill Weber Slant Magazine 01/12/2011
3.5/4
This documentary of a makeshift community of Chinese citizens caught in a Dickensian charade of Beijing bureaucracy finds hope among the hopeless and pride in the hearts of outcasts. Go to Full Review David Fear Time Out 01/12/2011
4/5
This guerrilla-cinema essay is more than just a look at China's judicial morass; it's a dispatch from the front lines of a dictatorship. Go to Full Review Eric Monder Film Journal International 01/18/2011
Sad and sobering account of human-rights violations in modern-day China. Go to Full Review Chris Cabin Filmcritic.com 01/13/2011
4/5
epic and ambitious Go to Full Review Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews 01/13/2011
A film that shows how China's poor go through a Kafkaesque nightmare in a largely futile effort to get justice through Beijing's petition offices. Nominally ombudsmen, these offices largely serve to prevent justice from taking place. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Zhao Liang

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Zhao Liang