5.0
out of 100
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Harvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. Milk is a marvel.
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Sean Penn never tries to show Harvey Milk as a hero, and never needs to. He shows him as an ordinary man, kind, funny, flawed, shrewd, idealistic, yearning for a better world.
A fascinating film -- more docudrama than biopic.
The film is superbly crafted, covering huge amounts of time, people and the zeitgeist without a moment of lapsed energy or inattention to detail.
Penn's Oscar-caliber transformation is breathtaking, and the saga of one man's fight for human rights is engrossing.
Brolin's work is superlatively expressive of the inchoate impulses roiling inside his sorry character. But good as most of the cast is, the show belongs squarely to Penn.
There's nothing terribly wrong with Milk, it's just that its celebration of a culture and a neighborhood, its valentine to the early days of gay rights activism, is mostly more conventional than compelling.
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...very moving
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