67
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- A vivid documentary with unusual access to the key players in the geopolitical dramas it recounts.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceAn expertly drawn primer on the soft dictatorships that constrained five different countries and the peaceful revolutions that sought to expunge them.
- 70Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAn impressive array of archival news footage, enlightening interviews with activists, politicos, academics and journalists, plus a dispensable Alfred Molina-narrated animated parable, round out this provocative, if at times overly ambitious effort.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeClearly intent on inspiring viewers, the informational film makes a fine sum-up for those who've found the last decade's geopolitics too much to keep track of, but isn't promising in commercial terms.
- 60VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibA Whisper to a Roar traces a too-familiar step-by-step political pattern: the transformation of a liberator into a despot, his subsequent reign of tyranny and the popular uprising against it.