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'The Great Debaters'
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"The Great Debaters" is grimly determined to inspire by any means necessary. On a purely visceral level, it succeeds, but at considerable cost to historical veracity and dramatic nuance. You admire the film for trying to get moviegoers worked up over protagonists who use rhetoric and reason as weapons instead of guns and fists. You lament that it doesn't trust its material enough to do much more...
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