The hero of free speech, his voice so musical, cuts a memorable figure.

| Dec 18, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 3, 2012

An fine film, touching if not exceptional.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 21, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

... best read as a eulogy for a genuine hero, a natty, erudite little guy with a funny accent and a perceptible joy of life.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 2, 2005

A compassionate and powerful tribute to a crusader doing battle with 'no weapon other than his microphone and a thirst for truth.'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2004

Free speech isn't merely a shibboleth in The Agronomist. As embodied by Dominique, it's a fire-breathing force.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2004

His story makes us feel for the Haitian people and appreciate the glorious right of a free press.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 30, 2004

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 3, 2004

Demme does not seek justice. He has done something greater in making Dominique immortal.

| Jun 24, 2004

The mark of an effective documentary feature is its ability to work on more than one level. And by those standards at least, The Agronomist is very effective.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2004

Demme... captures Dominique's energy and hunger for human rights, sometimes by doing nothing more than locking down the camera and letting the guy talk.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2004

Once again, Hollywood's big-budget blockbusters are overshadowed by a small but infinitely more moving piece of expert non-fiction filmmaking.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 14, 2004

An interesting story about a fascinating man and his struggling nation.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 11, 2004

A lively, illuminating homage to an extraordinary man of courage, whose cry for his beloved country got him killed.

| Original Score: B | Jun 10, 2004

While a fitting tribute to Dominique the man and fervent patriot, Demme's personalized film is less enlightening on Haiti as a whole.

| Jun 9, 2004

Demme's fine, riveting, and finally joyous film is a fitting capstone to the life of a man who made a difference in a time and place where it was (and is) so much easier not to.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 6, 2004

Traces the life of this brave, exuberant spokesman for freedom of the press and human rights in a country that has known little of either.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 4, 2004

Intelligent, stodgy and predictable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 3, 2004

A political documentary that sings with the urgency, potency and, yes, stridency of a great protest song.

| Original Score: B- | May 31, 2004