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Nossa Chape has an urgency and poignancy that several narrative dramas only wish they could achieve.
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Film Journal International by André Hereford
Sibling filmmakers Jeff and Michael Zimbalist’s riveting Nossa Chape (Our Team) reveals at first a team and a town that have been utterly destroyed by the unimaginable. Then, with the tension of a well-plotted sports drama, the documentary tracks the team’s rise from the ashes of grief back to something like normal.
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San Francisco Chronicle by G. Allen Johnson
The film is an excellent reminder of how important soccer is globally. It’s more than a sport.
50
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
The movie the directors have made doesn’t have the passion that its subjects do.
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Los Angeles Times by Michael Rechtshaffen
The film probes that tricky-to-reconcile bridge between honoring the fallen and moving forward.
75
It’s a credit to the makers of the soccer documentary Nossa Chape that they’d still have a decent film, even without the tragedy that underscores the one they made.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
Nossa Chape is a testament to how moving forward does not require leaving the past behind.
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By focusing on what binds those on the pitch and those in the bleachers, Nossa Chape doesn’t just wonder if some things are “bigger than the game” — it proves it.