This is not impartial filmmaking. This is manipulation.
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10/25/07
Lake of Fire (2007)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:48
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: Lake of Fire's engaging interviews and powerful black-and-white visuals make for a riveting and honest documentary about a very controversial topic.
Theatrical Release:Oct 3, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Director Tony Kaye (AMERICAN HISTORY X) helms this black-and-white documentary about one of the most controversial issues in America: abortion.
Director: Tony Kaye
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Reviews for Lake of Fire
Doesn't quite feel as definitive as the filmmaker intended, although I can't imagine how any film on the subject could get closer than this.
12/12/07
Lake wants to break through decades of encrusted rhetoric to make us think again. With one slow reveal of Norma McCorvey, a.k.a. 'Jane Roe,' the movie upends all you assumed about this subject.
04/26/07
Top Criticit's hard to imagine a more honest and clear-headed documentary that's been made or will be made on the subject of abortion.
10/02/07
A 2 1/2 -hour documentary on abortion may sound like a hard sell, but the depth and scope of Tony Kaye's grueling Lake of Fire nonetheless justifies feeling like you've just taken a long, blistering soak in one.
10/12/07
Top CriticKaye denies that his film has a political bias, but it does.
10/17/07
One lesson of Lake of Fire is the galvanizing power of the visual image. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and sometimes pictures are not enough.
10/03/07
Top CriticSmart, visually appealing, and consistently engaging.
09/15/06
Top CriticDemands we throw out our preconceived notions and face the issue without walls to protect us.
12/14/07
At 152 minutes, his film doesn't seem long, because at every moment something absorbing, disturbing, depressing or infuriating is happening.
10/26/07
Top CriticThis sprawling, scary, nearly unbearable film [is] more important than ever.
10/01/07
Top CriticAlong with Kay’s masterful compositions, effulgent black and white cinematography elevates the material over typical documentary filmmaking.
10/05/07
Handsomely filmed on silvery 35mm and high-definition by Kaye himself, the shrewdly edited pic balances a full spectrum of views from all sides of the abortion debate without obviously taking a position itself.
09/20/06
Top CriticFor a notoriously 'difficult' director, Kaye turned in a surprisingly even-handed film, and his sensitive treatment of his interview subjects leads to a number of revealing moments.
10/05/07
As the U.S. elections media coverage becomes incessant, it's worth keeping in mind that actual listening to other "sides" can be enlightening.
01/17/08
Lake's head-on confrontation of a problem most people simply wish to ignore is documentary cinema at its most raw and vital.
07/30/08
Lives up to its promise of definitiveness...a significant piece of journalism.
09/25/07
It's the arguments on both sides that make this long, gripping film such a vital contribution to the national conversation about abortion.
10/19/07
The astonishing feat of the documentary Lake of Fire is that it takes a topic about which everyone is always telling us what to think and manages to do justice to both sides. Or rather, all sides.
11/09/07
A provocatively beautiful movie on the hottest hot-button issue in American life: a woman's right to an abortion.
10/02/07
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