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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceGranito becomes both a humanitarian legal thriller and a quest to find justice through cinema.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberThe Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberThe film tracks the history of the country, but viewers may feel the documentarian inserts herself too much into the story.
- Ms. Yates's moral convictions and agitprop idealizations come far too easily. Granito is less rough-edged than its guerrilla-film predecessor, but it shares a spirit of simplistic revolutionary solidarity.
- 40Time OutNick SchagerTime OutNick SchagerThe repeated sight of people watching video monitors or communicating with others via laptops becomes a stilted, gimmicky affectation, and there are only so many times you can watch a camera panning and zooming over still photos before your tolerance for the Ken Burns effect reaches its limit.
- 38Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThe key to good, or at least effective, agitprop (and Oliver Stone and Michael Moore know this) is that, yes, it must simplify matters, but it necessitates canny presentation so that it may truly get into viewers' blood streams and rile them.