America the Beautiful (Blu-ray)
by Various Artists
Is America obsessed with beauty?
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 17 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 21, 2008
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Summit
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ray Charles |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
Despite the occasional flash of insight, and a few semi-shocking factoids, most women are going to find this movie roughly as illuminating as a remedial math class might be for a Nobel-prize winning physicist.
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Chicago Tribune
Touching on the tip of an iceberg, AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL takes you to the precipice with its thought provoking commentary on our society and then keeps you hanging on long after you leave the theater...
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Behind The Lens
Rating: 3/4 --
[Director] Roberts has a point of view, yes, but he also has a curiosity that drives him and the movie. Lucky are those who go along for the ride.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Rating: 2/5 --
With so many pointless detours ripping you away, the film feels as lamely digressive as the proverbial one-track guy whose head won't stop turning as each new temptation walks by.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
America's obsession with beauty is the subject of filmmaker Darryl Roberts wide-ranging investigative documentary that shows how beauty product manufacturers manipulate the public.
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About.com
Rating: D --
Perhaps in future exposes Roberts will uncover that ice is cold and furnaces hot.
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AV Club
Rating: 3/4 --
In the documentary America the Beautiful, Roberts explores the cult of beauty in the United States and mostly succeeds in unmasking the flaws of fetishizing skin-deep beauty.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Description by OLDIES.com:
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL celebrates true American beauty in crystal clear High Definition accompanied by an incredible soundtrack mastered in Dolby TrueHD. Legendary Ray Charles comes alive with his timeless rendition of America The Beautiful paired with spectacular scenes of the United States of America in all her glory. Along with American favorite instrumental music selections from Classical to Opera, Ragtime to Cajun, Bagpipes to Banjo the purple mountains majesty, fruited plains, and oceans white with foam never looked so good.