80
Dark Horse is a shuddering, but delicately handled, exploration of that most basic human desire: to leave a mark and to forge a legacy.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
The villagers, excitable everyday folks, make for capital interview subjects, and the filmmakers wring poignancy from re-enactments your brain knows are a little much but your heart may thrum to anyway.
80
Screen International by Allan Hunter
A heartwarming true story that has been expertly crafted into an irresistible, emotion-charged documentary.
60
It's hard not to be seduced by this folky yarn.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
What makes the film so much fun to watch is not only its clear underdog narrative — the story's only halfway told by 2007, with several more surprising twists in store — but also that the no-nonsense commoners are such pleasant company, recounting how things went in candid, soundbite-ready and often amusing ways.
60
Time Out London by Dave Calhoun
It’s a winning yarn, but Osmond has to crack the whip to get it over the finishing line.
83
For the many, many viewers who’ve never heard of Dream Alliance, Osmond’s documentary is edge-of-the-seat stuff.
80
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
With its sheer warmth and likability, this good-natured documentary won my heart.
67
Dark Horse is crowd-pleasing and rousing, but its biggest problem is that no successive part of the documentary can sustain the power of its opening prologue.