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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- In its 98 minutes, film critic Godfrey Cheshire’s documentary Moving Midway records an amazing architectural feat, and that’s the least of its virtues.
- 91Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerIn Moving Midway, Cheshire chronicles not only the history of the move but also of the family members, past and present, who occupied the place, and, most pointedly, the slaves who worked its fields, some of whom turn out to be related.
- 90The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottMay not advance any grand new thesis about the South and its history, but it turns an old house into a rich and strange repository of local knowledge.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinMoving Midway is thrilling.
- 80New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanCheshire refuses to look away, no matter how complicated things get. In fact, it's the tangled, tortured roots that most inspire him, turning this deeply personal film into a potent meditation on our nation's past.
- His engaging chronicle of the physical, historical and psychological effect of the undertaking, is also an invitation for a film buff to meditate on the antebellum South's mythic power in stories and film.
- 75New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithThe oddly compelling documentary Moving Midway is an engineering tale combined with a family history and a ghost story.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is a deceptive film. It starts in one direction and discovers a better one. Cheshire is a dry, almost dispassionate narrator, and that is good; preaching about his discoveries would sound wrong.
- 70Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallChicago ReaderAndrea GronvallWhat begins as a leave-taking turns into a homecoming that reflects the mixed-race society of the modern south.
- 60VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibUniquely Southern documentary has become surprisingly timely this election year.