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19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleDocumentaries can be informative, entertaining and provocative, but rare is the documentary that makes you feel so engaged (and enraged) that it prompts you to action somehow. Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion is that kind of film.
- 90The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonRiveting, eye-opening issue film.
- 75New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThough the Chinese government won't be too happy about it, everyone else ought to be deeply moved by the tragedies Peosay records.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoPart political thriller, part National Geographic travelogue, Tom Peosay's documentary is a distressing look at China's 50-year repression of the people of Tibet.
- 75Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrLess a documentary than a cry of outrage -- a series of exotic images that slowly turn horrifying.
- 75Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldA passionate, well-made documentary that stresses how time is running out for a peaceful solution.
- 70VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerThe film is, at times, emotionally riveting -- yet also has an institutional feeling, largely because it attempts to cover too much ground in too little time.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoicePitched for a sympathetic American audience, the documentary goes for shock with the filmmakers' first trip to "the altar of the world" in 1987, when they happened to be caught in an uprising of monks that was violently crushed by the Chinese army.
- 60TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghRather than rage, Peosay's film radiates sadness over a singular way of life in danger of imminent obliteration.