The picture carries an element of nostalgia and yet thunders down too hard with a lot of one-sided perspectives.
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11/13/08
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The Beautiful Truth (2008)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:7
Rotten:7
Average Rating:5.6/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Nov 14, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Is it possible the cure for cancer was discovered in the 1920s? After the death of his mother, Garrett becomes disaffected with life. But a research assignment on a controversial book by Dr. Max... [More]
Director: Steve Kroschel
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Reviews for The Beautiful Truth
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Quack or saint? Dr. Gerson, whose work in allegedly curing cancer by alternative means, is highlighted in a light, even convincing way.
10/31/08
An unusual and sobering documentary which turns conventional wisdom about health matters on its head.
11/18/08
[A] condescending, manipulative film.
11/26/08
Comes off mostly like a hybrid of retro-style educational film and late-night infomercial.
11/26/08
There may be truth in what Kroschel says, but you won't find it in this pedantic film, which has all the veracity of a late-night TV infomercial.
11/14/08
The Beautiful Truth is a documentary about contemporary health hazards and alternative treatments.
11/14/08
Boring like a one-note school lecture but nevertheless is credible as it makes its case about the need for alternative medicines.
11/18/08
It's Michael Moore without the truculence, PBS without the pretension, CNN without the commercial grandstanding.
01/09/09
The end result not only constitutes an uncomfortable--dare I say, inorganic--collusion of fact and fiction but also suggests we're being indoctrinated into a cult.
11/10/08
A powerful documentary that offers both a chilling expose of the toxins in our food that are causing so much disease and an affirmation of a plant-oriented therapy that has cured cancer in many individuals.
11/21/08
The director’s suggestion that big pharmaceutical companies have no interest in actually curing cancer is credible, but the film itself unfortunately makes Kroschel’s beliefs come off like just so much hippie propaganda.
11/12/08
While docu's claims and criticism yield nothing especially new, the form of their exposition seems singularly ingenious, stylistically falling somewhere between a 1950s educational film and some sort of Norman Rockwellian infomercial.
11/12/08
Kroschel positions The Beautiful Truth as a sort of instructional video for young people on the merits of eating healthy, but its creepy messianic vibe is far more toxic than all the pollutants in all the processed food you could ever consume.
11/12/08
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