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| Mar 20, 2007Time Out
offers some striking performances, powerful images and informed writing....working from a well-informed and sensitive script from Shawn Slovo , who in 1988 wrote 'A World Apart' about her childhood as the daughter of an ANC activist -....its story feels as fresh as it possibly could three decades later..... ... Full Review
| Jan 30, 2007DVD Talk
Given the code name "Hot Stuff" (the original, and thankfully discarded, title of Catch a Fire ), Patrick helps plot another bombing of the Secunda refinery.
Robbins is less successful as Vos.
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| Nov 02, 2006Christianity Today
F]rom an emotional standpoint Catch a Fire never ignites.
But he adds, "Luke continues to establish himself as one of the best young actors today.
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| Oct 27, 2006The New York Sun
Mr. Luke, a very handsome young actor who often turns up in American sports movies, speaks in a murmur that's so gentle it sounds put on.
Two of the film's most memorable moments take place at the training camp there.
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| Oct 27, 2006San Francisco Chronicle
Until this turning point, "Catch a Fire" unfolds slowly, with scrupulous attention to detail.
Noyce's straightforward, almost documentary style is especially effective, considering that so many incidents happened pretty much the way they're portrayed.
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| Oct 27, 2006Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The film makes such heroes/victims of the main characters that it neglects to notice how relationships stop making sense.
A neighborhood boys' soccer coach, Patrick has a perfect wife, Precious (Bonnie Henna), and two daughters.
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| Oct 27, 2006Waco Tribune Herald, TX
"Ms Gillespie's review for "Catch A Fire" is disappointing. ... Full Review
| Oct 27, 2006Deseret News
The best, most powerful moments in "Catch a Fire" come at the end - in the film's appropriately low-key conclusion.
But even if the rest of this fact-based dramatic thriller is not quite as powerful as its conclusion, it is still very watchable.
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| Oct 26, 2006The Portland Mercury, OR
Ultimately, it's impossible to see Catch a Fire as anything but an allegory to the current "war on terror.
By the film's heavy-handed final act-which is meant to give the viewer a warm sense of hope-viewers will likely just be scratching their heads.
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| Oct 26, 2006commonsensemedia.org
Though the subject matter of Catch a Fire is heavy, this movie does a wonderful job of explaining a complicated situation, told through the eyes of a hero who helped change history.
The other actors -- including Robbins, Henna, and Michele Burgers as Vos' wife -- deliver emotional performances as well, showing the many grey areas that exist between "right" and "wrong.
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