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Genevieve Bailey displays a terrific knack for connecting with her subjects on topics ranging from religion to romance and the environment.
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Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
"I wanted to make something energetic, optimistic, universal, and real," Bailey announces in voiceover as the movie begins. She's certainly accomplished that, but it's too bad she didn't also aim for vital, illuminating, or consistently compelling.
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RogerEbert.com by Christy Lemire
Bailey has achieved the purpose she set out at the film’s start. She’s made a film that’s optimistic, ultimately. But it would have benefitted from being a lot more real.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
The feature-length film ultimately becomes repetitive, with the lack of contextual information about the subjects’ lives rendering the proceedings shallow.
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Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
Given the number and range of kids in view, there's a limit to how much specificity can be jammed into one movie.
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The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger
Ms. Bailey’s willingness to let the children talk and to let the viewer impose broader meaning elevates it.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore
“Eleven” turns out to be an overreach, with too many voices to be anything but superficial, too few (she skipped sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America) to be thorough.