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It's somewhat clumsily expressed, but Alive Inside offers such an uplifting message that it's ultimately hard to resist.
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Music here seems to have a miraculous power to lift up, to awaken, to reinvigorate. Aug 21, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4
Music here seems to have a miraculous power to lift up, to awaken, to reinvigorate.
Moira MacDonald
Equal parts heart-wrenching and heart-lifting ... Aug 14, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Equal parts heart-wrenching and heart-lifting ...
Barbara VanDenburgh
I would have preferred a documentary that did more presenting and less pushing. But...the music's vivifying effect on old souls made for some of the most moving scenes I've seen all year. Aug 7, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
I would have preferred a documentary that did more presenting and less pushing. But...the music's vivifying effect on old souls made for some of the most moving scenes I've seen all year.
Matthew Lickona
The movie effectively bullies you into feeling good; with its hard sell and superfluous CG imagery, it might as well be a superhero movie. Aug 7, 2014 | Full Review…
The movie effectively bullies you into feeling good; with its hard sell and superfluous CG imagery, it might as well be a superhero movie.
Ben Sachs
The movie is at its best when documenting the reactions of various patients, which in some cases is nearly miraculous. Aug 7, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The movie is at its best when documenting the reactions of various patients, which in some cases is nearly miraculous.
Walter V. Addiego
Alive Inside is a small but vibrant miracle. The documentary finds hope and joy in one of our nation's bleakest settings, nursing homes. Aug 1, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4
Alive Inside is a small but vibrant miracle. The documentary finds hope and joy in one of our nation's bleakest settings, nursing homes.
David Hiltbrand
Not only is Alive Inside a tightly executed film, its' screening at this year's Sundance Film Festival took home the Audience Award in the documentary category. Nov 8, 2018 | Full Review…
Not only is Alive Inside a tightly executed film, its' screening at this year's Sundance Film Festival took home the Audience Award in the documentary category.
Morgan Rojas
Terribly maudlin and ultimately exploitative. Aug 31, 2018 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
Terribly maudlin and ultimately exploitative.
Pat Padua
What remains undoubtable is how deeply moving it is to watch one shut-in after another be let loose, in a moment, by sound. Aug 17, 2017 | Full Review…
What remains undoubtable is how deeply moving it is to watch one shut-in after another be let loose, in a moment, by sound.
Brian Gibson
[Alive Inside] goes for the visceral instead of the intellectual, and in that it's a success. Aug 14, 2017 | Full Review…
[Alive Inside] goes for the visceral instead of the intellectual, and in that it's a success.
Alex Heeney
Alive Inside is a worthwhile reminder that life is a beautiful thing, and that something as simple as music can unlock the life within our most isolated peers. Nov 5, 2015 | Full Review…
Alive Inside is a worthwhile reminder that life is a beautiful thing, and that something as simple as music can unlock the life within our most isolated peers.
Josh Terry
(Director Michael) Rossato-Bennett and (subject Dan) Cohen struck me at times as being perhaps a little too self-congratulatory, yet the significance of this beautifully-composed documentary and the breakthroughs it depicts can't be denied. Nov 30, 2014 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
(Director Michael) Rossato-Bennett and (subject Dan) Cohen struck me at times as being perhaps a little too self-congratulatory, yet the significance of this beautifully-composed documentary and the breakthroughs it depicts can't be denied.
Fr. Chris Carpenter
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