Documentaries can be informative, entertaining and provocative, but rare is the documentary that makes you feel so engaged (and enraged) that it prompts you to action somehow. Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion is that kind of film.
Though the Chinese government won't be too happy about it, everyone else ought to be deeply moved by the tragedies Peosay records.
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New York PostV.A. Musetto
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Part political thriller, part National Geographic travelogue, Tom Peosay's documentary is a distressing look at China's 50-year repression of the people of Tibet.
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Boston GlobeTy Burr
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Less a documentary than a cry of outrage -- a series of exotic images that slowly turn horrifying.
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Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
A passionate, well-made documentary that stresses how time is running out for a peaceful solution.
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VarietyRobert Koehler
VarietyRobert Koehler
The film is, at times, emotionally riveting -- yet also has an institutional feeling, largely because it attempts to cover too much ground in too little time.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
Pitched for a sympathetic American audience, the documentary goes for shock with the filmmakers' first trip to "the altar of the world" in 1987, when they happened to be caught in an uprising of monks that was violently crushed by the Chinese army.