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Orlando Sentinel

The movie comes down to Gosling's spot-on performance and how we feel about it.

October 20, 2006

Boston Phoenix

A sometimes subtle, sometimes bombastic (Gosling's performance ranges from brilliant to bug-eyed) parable about class, race, power, and the dialectics of family relationships.

April 23, 2009

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Cinema Crazed

A fantastic merging of talents into a pure piece of art...

April 12, 2014

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Time Out

Gosling and Epps, an unusual but effective pairing, show real commitment in their performances.

October 30, 2006

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CinePassion

The filmmakers bask disingenuously in their tidy vision of border-busting healing

August 30, 2009

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RogerEbert.com

This movie... is concerned with an even greater achievement that is generally unacknowledged: how people -- flawed, miserable, frustrated people -- go to work every day and find a way to care about something beyond themselves, despite themselves.

September 27, 2006

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Suite101.com

"Half Nelson" elegantly tiptoe around its elephant in the room: Dan's most compelling instruction to not let Drey enter the drug trade is his own destruction. That point of panic turns into something approaching penance.

September 24, 2010

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Salon.com

Gosling is indeed amazing as a bewildered, depressed New York schoolteacher who is slipping into dire drug addiction; it's exactly the kind of star turn in a smaller film that Academy voters could (and should) notice.

October 07, 2006

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Detroit Free Press

Although the subject promises more than the film can deliver, there is compensation in Gosling's convincing, unromanticized portrayal of someone seeking escape from longing and loss that neither he nor the movie can really define.

October 06, 2006

ColeSmithey.com

The movie hits a stream of false notes when Dunne's students deliver oral reports on Civil Rights struggles that could only have been plagiarized. The film's ending isn't only meager, it's utterly listless.

April 22, 2009

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Common Sense Media

Indie inner-city drama with drug-addict teacher.

December 15, 2010

NPR.org

Ryan Gosling's self-destructive teacher is easily the year's most mesmerizing character study. And he's hardly the only reason to see this film. Shareeka Epps anchors her scenes as Drey with a self-possession way beyond her years.

October 18, 2008

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