Spanning four years, To Be Heard has a large enough scope to map its subjects' rocky road to reinvention, concentrating on various bumps along the way.
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Slant Magazine by Glenn Heath Jr.
This arc may sound particularly familiar on paper, but To Be Heard finds the unique passions and heartaches in all three stories, allowing the viewer to become invested in whatever outcome befalls each subject.
New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier
This brisk but full documentary about students at a Bronx high school taking a class that promotes literacy and poetry slams is, like its subjects, multifaceted, sometimes sad but ultimately inspiring.
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
In the end, the power poetry workshops, as the teachers are first to admit, are not about creating Shakespeares. They are about survival.