Too bad von Glasow dissipates the effect with a tentative last-minute Michael Moore-lite gesture, the final mark of a slack, scattershot approach that ill serves the director's intermittently audacious film.
Nobody's Perfect
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Germany · 2008
Rated NR · 1h 24m
Director Niko von Glasow
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Genre Documentary
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German filmmaker Niko von Glasow embarks on a very personal project with this documentary that profiles thalidomiders: people born with malformed or missing limbs because their mothers took thalidomide for morning sickness during pregnancy.
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Rare enough to make NoBody’s Perfect an exemplar of fresh-air filmmaking that addresses the devastating legacy of the drug thalidomide with acidic wit and grumpy honesty.
Boxoffice Magazine by Sara Schieron
This doc is far from perfect, formally it accomplishes nothing new and has opportunities to go places that could have been massive, but these missed opportunities don’t undermine its other accomplishments. It’s imperfect and still does quite a lot.
The film tastefully handles the sensitive subject, but it lacks the bite that a Michael Moore would have provided.
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