For the documentary to shift credit to the paper-clip project as a reason for receiving the speakers is tantamount to fraud.
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06/01/05
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Paper Clips (2004)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:36
Rotten:15
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: A touching, though somewhat flat, documentary that follows a homogenous class of white Protestant eighth graders as they learn the importance of tolerance by erecting a monument to the 6 million victims of the Holocaust.
Theatrical Release:Sep 8, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: The town of Whitwell is a tiny community of about two thousand people nestled in the mountains of Tennessee. Its citizens are almost exclusively white and Christian. In 1998, the children of... [More]
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Reviews for Paper Clips
It's hard to find fault with the motives of the teachers and the kids. Their determination and results are admirable.
02/10/05
Top CriticDocumentaries do not rise or fall on their production values ...
05/27/05
The story becomes more about the collection of the paper clips and less and less about what the paper clips represent.
02/17/05
The events depicted in Paper Clips are by turns heartwarming, horrifying, amazing, and exactly the type of real-world improbability that the documentary form was created for.
02/20/05
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12/02/04
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09/23/06
Will always succeed with audiences because it documents an A-level grass-roots effort. But as filmmaking, the disappointment is that it manages only C-level vision.
12/17/04
Paper Clips may be so-so moviemaking, but it's great reality.
12/17/04
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12/18/04
[A] heartfelt, if rather repetitive, documentary.
04/29/05
Not a sophisticated or very challenging film, nor should it be. It is straightforward, heartfelt and genuine.
02/25/05
Top CriticSymbolism is hard to swallow, and it's near impossible to relate to these paper clips as souls, especially when they are talked about in terms of collecting and counting and displaying.
02/24/05
Paper Clips is a nice social interest project, but not much of a documentary.
10/25/05
There's no denying the iron grip of the movie's message.
05/06/05
A worthwhile record of an admirable undertaking, but a little less sentiment and a little more edge might have produced a stronger film.
11/28/04
The project is chronicled eloquently in Paper Clips, a documentary about how a few kids can make a difference, one paper clip at a time.
02/17/05
Top CriticLow-key but inspirational.
02/18/05
It would be easier to forgive first-timers Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab for their offenses against good documentary filmmaking if they weren't messing up such sure-fire material.
05/06/05
A moving experience.
02/04/05
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