Movie Review for Jimmy Carter Man from Plains

Summary: Former President Jimmy Carter embarks on a book tour of his non-fiction book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" and speaks at various books signings about how peace can be achieved in the Middle East.

                         Reviews of Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
By Ty Burr of Boston Globe (7/0)
            The movie's best material is archival. It looks like old home movie stuff, but you can still feel...

By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
            One reason to see this film might be to learn more about [Carter's] views on the Middle East, but...

By Edward Douglas of ComingSoon.net (7/0)
            Anyone interested in politics and the conflict in the Mid-East should be able to enjoy this fasci...

By Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.Com (7/0)
            Though nominally a docu bout former president Jimmy Carter's book tour, Jonathan Demme's film is ...

By Jonathan W. Hickman of Entertainment Insiders (7/0)
            Buried in this messy tribute is a neat story of a man who even in his advanced years remains soci...

By Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
            ...a gripping meditation on the very hot-button-ness of the Israeli-Palestinian question.

                         Reviews of Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
By Beth Accomando of KPBS.org (7/0)
            Jimmy Carter Man From Plains offers a measured, thoughtful and ultimately admiring portrait of ou...

By Andy Klein of Los Angeles CityBeat (7/0)
            Is the general benevolence the film conveys convincing? Well, yes, and there's little in Carter's...

By Meg Jones of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (7/0)
            Jimmy Carter Man From Plains shows a relatively unvarnished portrait of a man who's not afraid to...

By Elizabeth Weitzman of New York Daily News (7/0)
            Leaves too much time for Demme as he turns an interesting character study into a full-blown tribu...

By Candace Taylor of New York Magazine (7/0)
            The documentary does bring plenty nuance and passion to a public persona.

By Kyle Smith of New York Post (7/0)
            There isn't enough revealing material in the tedious documentary Jimmy Carter Man From Plains to ...

                         Reviews of Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
By Jan Stuart of Newsday (7/0)
            As much a pungent dissection of American media malaise as it is a towering tribute to a deceptive...

By Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
            A sympathetic but rounded portrait...that's both inspiring and revealing about a man praised by s...

By Scott Tobias of Onion AV Club (7/0)
            Jonathan Demme's fly-on-the-wall documentary Man From Plains follows Carter on a three-month book...

By Sean Burns of Philadelphia Weekly (7/0)
            These sometimes draggy two hours feel like time well-spent with a gentleman, and Lord knows there...

By Cynthia Fuchs of PopMatters (7/0)
            The story of Jimmy Carter Man From Plains begins with Miss Lillian.

By Keith Uhlich of Reeler (7/0)
            Carter's life and work deserve a fuller accounting and analysis than Demme is finally able to pro...

                         Reviews of Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
By Robin Clifford of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
            [Carter] makes a case comparing the current situation in Israel with the white-ruled apartied of ...

By Andrew O'Hehir of Salon.com (7/0)
            If Jimmy Carter Man From Plains sometimes feels like the portrait of a saint, it also reminds us ...

By Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
            An intriguing document of a man's public and private life and has yet further value as the first ...

By Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine (7/0)
            Jonathan Demme's Jimmy Carter Man From Plains, like Neil Young: Heart of Gold and The Agronomist,...

By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat of Spirituality and Practice (7/0)
            An inspiring documentary about former President Jimmy Carter's book tour for 'Palestine: Peace No...

By David Fear of Time Out New York (5/2)
            Though Carter’s controversial reference to past injustices is meant to spark conversation about a...

                         Reviews of Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
By Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
            The minutiae of Carter's book tour isn't always enthralling, but his personality drives the film:...

By Ann Hornaday of Washington Post (7/0)
            For the uninitiated, Demme's film provides an absorbing, if largely hagiographic, portrait of a m...

By Susan Granger of www.susangranger.com (7/0)
            Insightful - exploring the kind of impact a former President can have after leaving the Oval Offi...

By Sid Smith of Chicago Tribune (3/4) No reference
            Carter comes off as compassionate and intelligent. But the complex issues brought up in his book ...

By Richard Horgan of FilmStew.com (3/4) No reference
            Does for Carter what An Inconvenient Truth did for fellow Nobel Peace Prize

By Brad Wheeler of Globe and Mail (3/4) No reference
            Demme subtly portrays Carter's love affair with wife Rosalynn, and succeeds where Carter's book f...

                         Reviews of Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
By Ray Bennett of Hollywood Reporter (3/4) No reference
            He [Carter] may not have been the most dynamic or effective president in recent history but in De...

By Glenn Whipp of Los Angeles Daily News (3/4) No reference
            Demme is clearly awed by his subject, and his film is a stirring document about how one man's ste...

By Kenneth Turan of Los Angeles Times (3/4) No reference
            There's not much to inform in the new 'Jimmy Carter' documentary.

By Kenneth Turan of Los Angeles Times (3/4) No reference
            Narrrowly cast documentary focuses so exclusively on a publicity tour the former president took i...

By Geoff Berkshire of Metromix.com (3/4) No reference
            It's downright invigorating to spend time with an American President who has a clear grasp of int...

By Armond White of New York Press (3/4) No reference
            The film starts as a character study but finds its purpose in the middle of a political storm.

                         Reviews of Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
By Stephen Whitty of Newark Star-Ledger (3/4) No reference
            Every so often, though, Demme decides to make a documentary about something he not only knows but...

By Tony Medley of tonymedley.com (3/4) No reference
            While it is probably apocryphal that Carter was the model for the role of the delusional Lars in ...

By Ronnie Scheib of Variety (3/4) No reference
            The story that emerges, illustrated with footage from the time, delivers a surprising lesson in t...

By J. Hoberman of Village Voice (3/4) No reference
            A book tour isn't even a political campaign, and traveling with Jimmy Carter isn't exactly going ...

By Joe Morgenstern of Wall Street Journal (3/4) No reference
            The documentary proves to be an uncomfortably admiring advertisement for its subject, and a narro...

By Christy Lemire of Associated Press (3/4) Not Reachable
            Demme doesn't insert himself, there's no structured interview format, we never see him or even he...

                         Reviews of Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
By Harvey S. Karten of Compuserve (3/4) Not Reachable
            It's to Jonathan Demme's credit that he creates an angelic view of Jimmy Carter despite the forme...

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