Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion Reviews
Old School Reviews
For an overview about the current situation in Tibet it's tough to beat Tom Peosay's documentary
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| Original Score: A
Filmcritic.com
preaches to the converted, but it preaches well and may serve to inspire more people to take action on behalf of Tibet
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| Original Score: 4/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
This incredible documentary, so excellently crafted, is both moving and informative.
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| Original Score: A+
tonymedley.com
A compelling story that it should not be missed. The photography of Tibet is as gorgeous as the footage and stories of Chinese atrocities are disturbing.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Top CriticIt is pretty convincing in its argument that China has every intention of destroying the culture of Tibetans.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Boxoffice Magazine
As objective as any film on the subject can possibly be, Tibet was reportedly made over the course of a decade, sustained by a passion and dedication on the part of its makers that resonates in every frame of this gripping, heartbreaking odyssey.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Jam! Movies
Simultaneously horrifying and transporting.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of a people that the world must never be allowed to forget, no matter how much their oppressors would prefer us to do just that.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Cinema Signals
As a film, the technique barely serves the well-intentioned motivation behind it: the exposure of unprincipled subjugation.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Peosay does a remarkably good job providing the historical and political context for the China-Tibet struggle, something that often seems missing from "Free Tibet" rhetoric.
| Original Score: 3/4
A sobering examination of a land in turmoil and a people that have faced what former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Jeanne Kirkpatrick cites as 20 years of ethnic cleansing.
| Original Score: 3.5/4
Orlando Weekly
So thorough is the cinematic journalism that you'll swiftly forget what a challenge it must have been to document or simulate all of the key moments in a story that spans thousands of years of history.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
A colorful but grimly efficient documentary about a culture under siege.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Boulder Weekly
...a damning indictment of one of the world's dirtiest open secrets.
Each revelation seems more disturbing than the next.
