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Moving Midway Reviews
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011
| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011
Godfrey Cheshire, a highly acclaimed film critic, uses his cinematic smarts and sensibility to good effect in "Moving Midway," his documentary about the relocation of his ancestral home, an antebellum N.C. plantation named Midway.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 27, 2009
It is more successful as a study of Dixie social sciences than as a family video diary.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 28, 2009
The details behind the actual move are the least interesting part of the film; far more compelling is the "history" of slavery as presented through a polished Hollywood veneer.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 26, 2008
The myth of the Southern plantation incorporates and carries on visions of destiny and history, industry and identity.
| Nov 14, 2008
Cheshire deftly interweaves different interpretations of the antebellum South, through architecture, family memories (black and white), history, and popular culture.
| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 1, 2008
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.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 18, 2008
Quirky yet thoughtful.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2008
What begins as a leave-taking turns into a homecoming that reflects the mixed-race society of the modern south.
| Oct 17, 2008
Moving Midway isn't a simple-minded brotherhood-of-man tract. The film is spiked with artfully edited excerpts from some of the movies that have shaped American racial attitudes over the years.
| Oct 17, 2008
Moving Midway tells three stories, each one worthy of a film of its own.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 16, 2008
Southern myths rise up, then drop like flies in the enthralling documentary Moving Midway, and all because director Godfrey Cheshire's cousin is moving house. Literally.
| Oct 16, 2008
The film offers a probing and patient analyses of converging social movements related to everything from the nomination of the country's first black President to how people relate their family's history.
| Original Score: B+ | Sep 21, 2008
The whole idea of foundation -- as it applies to family, history, and an actual, stately American house -- receives a thoughtful inspection in Moving Midway, the graceful nonfiction film from Godfrey Cheshire.
| Original Score: A- | Sep 17, 2008
Godfrey Cheshire's Moving Midway, from his own screenplay, provides a profound meditation on the paradoxes of race in America through a discovery of his own Southern family's hitherto hidden secrets.
| Sep 17, 2008
An admirable examination of one family's belated attempt to come to grips with, if not atone for, its role in America's original sin.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 16, 2008
There is a satisfyingly Faulknerian air of bizarreness about the episode, and the shots of the grand old house being trundled down country roads are amazing.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 12, 2008
Tells a fascinating and complicated story of regional identity.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2008