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The Bang Bang Club
Directed by
Steven Silver
R
2010
1h 46m
Drama
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Biography
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6.9
49%
60%
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A drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa.
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Cast of The Bang Bang Club
Malin Åkerman
Robin Comley
Ryan Phillippe
Greg Marinovich
Taylor Kitsch
Kevin Carter
Frank Rautenbach
Ken Oosterbroek
Neels Van Jaarsveld
Joao Silva
Russel Savadier
Ronald Graham
Ashley Friedlander
Roxy
Patrick Lyster
James Nachtwey
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
Lika Berning
Vivian
The Bang Bang Club Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
"The Bang Bang Club" divulges little insight into what keeps this dangerous brotherhood banging away around the world.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
Captures this brutal time - which led to the country's first free, multiracial elections in 1994 and the end of apartheid - in vivid, often bold, but never overpowering strokes.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The story has heat, even if the movie is more entranced with its subjects than in what they're trying to achieve.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Seldom does "The Bang Bang Club" show much interest in the big picture of South Africa.
NPR
Ian Buckwalter
Director Steven Silver resists the story's natural pull toward ensemble drama, creating maddeningly incomplete sketches and two-dimensional archetypes for everyone but Ryan Phillippe's Greg Marinovich.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
A based-on-real-life saga that turns bloody reality into bloodless drama.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Writer-director Silver, who trained in documentaries, appears flummoxed by the challenges of getting the audience inside the heads of these young men.
Observer
Rex Reed
Applause is deserved, but if ticket sales are as passive as I predict, it means overlooking a very good movie indeed.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
"The Bang Bang Club" seems curiously oblivious to South Africa as a whole.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Silver means to get across the adrenaline rush of lives lived in dangerous extremes, but winds up trivializing their accomplishments and making them seem like men of hearty appetites, but little intellectual depth.
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
It's a special disappointment when a movie takes a great subject and lets us down.
eye WEEKLY
Adam Nayman
The Bang Bang Club seems to imply that the real tragedy was how a group of talented, committed young men were broken by a dangerous professional environment -- a dubious conclusion for a dubious movie.
IFC.com
Matt Singer
There's room for more nuance in The Bang Bang Club, but there was enough to keep me engaged.
CinemaBlend
Perri Nemiroff
Action captured in an all-encompassing yet perspective manner and top notch performances resulting in piece with the power to stick with you long after the credits roll.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
This is one of those relatively rare movies that gets better and smarter as it goes along...
Village Voice
Michelle Orange
Silver treads around and too heavily on the moral ambiguities involved in documenting atrocities, moving between frantic, poorly explained scenes of African conflict and the equally familiar, benumbing aesthetic of boys making a macho game of war.
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
When all is said and done, their Pulitzer-winning photographs prove more potent than this well-intended but frustratingly generic picture.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Club's entertainment value suffers at the expense of trying to capture the events as they happened.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Fails to convey the influential reach of the photographers' work and shows disinterest in engaging with the charges of exploitation and complicity leveled at them.
Washington City Paper
Tricia Olszewski
The film's politically minded and morally probing framework is marred by its portrayal of veritable frat boys goofing off.
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