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Despite some execution problems, Holly remains a realistic and gritty look at child sex slavery.
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Ultimately, Holly might have been more effective as a documentary. Nov 30, 2007 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Ultimately, Holly might have been more effective as a documentary.
Michael Snyder
Despite its best intentions, Holly never achieves the dramatic clarity it needs to put its human suffering into galvanizing perspective. Nov 30, 2007 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Despite its best intentions, Holly never achieves the dramatic clarity it needs to put its human suffering into galvanizing perspective.
Jeff Shannon
Despite a strong performance by Livingston, the film is sunk by sluggish pacing, straight-ahead plotting and an unresolved ending -- not to mention its inability to convince us that anything much can be done about sexual slavery. Nov 9, 2007 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Despite a strong performance by Livingston, the film is sunk by sluggish pacing, straight-ahead plotting and an unresolved ending -- not to mention its inability to convince us that anything much can be done about sexual slavery.
Kyle Smith
Half drama, half social tract, Guy Moshe's feature debut is meant to illustrate the horrors of child prostitution in Southeast Asia. The intentions, unfortunately, are more notable than the execution. Nov 9, 2007 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Half drama, half social tract, Guy Moshe's feature debut is meant to illustrate the horrors of child prostitution in Southeast Asia. The intentions, unfortunately, are more notable than the execution.
Elizabeth Weitzman
There's a riveting story lurking inside Holly; It's just not the one the filmmakers want to tell. Nov 9, 2007 | Rating: 2/5
There's a riveting story lurking inside Holly; It's just not the one the filmmakers want to tell.
Jeannette Catsoulis
An unsparing look at child prostitution is a hard sell for audiences, but this movie is a memorable achievement. Nov 9, 2007
An unsparing look at child prostitution is a hard sell for audiences, but this movie is a memorable achievement.
Stephen Farber
Well-meaning but terminally dull. Nov 30, 2007 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Well-meaning but terminally dull.
Josh Bell
It's realistic enough to admit that there's probably no way to ever completely eradicate an evil for which there seems to be such an eager demand. Nov 29, 2007 | Rating: B | Full Review…
It's realistic enough to admit that there's probably no way to ever completely eradicate an evil for which there seems to be such an eager demand.
William Arnold
Moshe and co-screenwriter Guy Jacobson use their white protagonist not cynically to exploit white guilt, but to excavate it and examine its possibilities and failings with an anthropological eye. Nov 25, 2007 | Rating: 3/4
Moshe and co-screenwriter Guy Jacobson use their white protagonist not cynically to exploit white guilt, but to excavate it and examine its possibilities and failings with an anthropological eye.
Peter Canavese
...it's easy to imagine how another director might have felt the need to switch to slo-mo and cue the violins. Nov 21, 2007
...it's easy to imagine how another director might have felt the need to switch to slo-mo and cue the violins.
Luke Y. Thompson
While Yaron Orbach's camera repeatedly evokes Patrick's naïveté and yearning, the setting also remains resolutely "foreign." Nov 14, 2007
While Yaron Orbach's camera repeatedly evokes Patrick's naïveté and yearning, the setting also remains resolutely "foreign."
Cynthia Fuchs
Gritty and wrenching, Holly is fiction with the heart of an expose. Nov 9, 2007 | Full Review…
Gritty and wrenching, Holly is fiction with the heart of an expose.
Susan Green
Not bad. Felt very watered down, but still a good movie raising awareness of child prostitution. The young girl who plays 12 year old Holly is very good, as is Ron Livingstone as the man who tries to help her escape.
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