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The 7Up series is thus one of the rare documentaries to have had a positive practical effect on the life of at least one of its subjects.
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What are critics saying?
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Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach
Offers a welcome continuation of what has proven a fascinating journey both for the film's 11 subjects (three of the 14 opted out of the project this go-round) and its audience.
100
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The latest installment is packed with surprises and emotion for people who've seen earlier stages of the project, but even newcomers will be fascinated by the vivid glimpses it provides of everything from love and family to political action and the pervasiveness of class distinctions in British life.
100
San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
This is an amazing record of a group of lives -- and probably more resonant than anyone could have imagined when the project began.
88
San Francisco Examiner by G. Allen Johnson
The only film sequels in history that just keep getting better.
100
New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
The latest episode of this ongoing masterpiece of reality TV -- which every seven years revisits a group of English people first interviewed as 7-year-olds in 1964 -- is every bit as enthralling as the earlier ones.
67
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
A living artifact that does what movies do best: exist in time.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Paula Nechak
Difficult to weigh and rate precisely because it deals with real life and real people.
90
Apted...has the storytelling skills to weave a powerful and poignant snapshot of some decent folks who have become, collectively, Britain's first family.
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Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy
An empathetic portrait of humanity on a house-by-house, heart-by-heart basis.