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Winter on Fire

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom

2015

Evgeny Afineevsky

Documentary

6.9

1,651

Documentary A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.

	Media	Author	Review
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Modern technology may not yet be able to capture the smell of gunpowder and tear gas, but Mr. Afineevsky takes the viewer closer to the action than might have seemed possible"
		Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter	"The editing is fairly tight, but the film does grow repetitive (...) Whatever this film’s limitations as comprehensive history, it certainly achieves visceral impact"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Despite all the hands involved in its creation, 'Winter on Fire' is imbued with a single and quite heartening spirit"
		Jay Weissberg Variety	"The docu corrals an impressive amount of video footage but is hamstrung by its rose-tinted 'the people united will never be defeated' p.o.v"
		Godfrey Cheshire rogerebert.com	"Though the film is limited by a point of view that’s too polemically reductive, the idealistic, difficult, sometimes lethal struggles it covers are undeniably revelatory and moving (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"[A] mesmerizing portrait of protest and crackdown (...) 'Winter on Fire' has all the immediacy and power of drama (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

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