It's a remarkable story, and well worth seeing, particularly for its handful of genuinely affecting moments.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 25, 2005

What makes Paper Clips so powerful and moving is the way everyone in the film seems affected by the Whitwell project. The students change. The teachers change. The townspeople change.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 4, 2005

Not a sophisticated or very challenging film, nor should it be. It is straightforward, heartfelt and genuine.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 25, 2005

Symbolism is hard to swallow, and it's near impossible to relate to these paper clips as souls, especially when they are talked about in terms of collecting and counting and displaying.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 24, 2005

The events depicted in Paper Clips are by turns heartwarming, horrifying, amazing, and exactly the type of real-world improbability that the documentary form was created for.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 20, 2005

The project is chronicled eloquently in Paper Clips, a documentary about how a few kids can make a difference, one paper clip at a time.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 17, 2005

The story becomes more about the collection of the paper clips and less and less about what the paper clips represent.

| Original Score: C | Feb 17, 2005

It's hard to find fault with the motives of the teachers and the kids. Their determination and results are admirable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 10, 2005

A moving experience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 4, 2005

Touching and inspiring.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 3, 2005

Will always succeed with audiences because it documents an A-level grass-roots effort. But as filmmaking, the disappointment is that it manages only C-level vision.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 17, 2004

The best way to appreciate Joe Fab and Elliot Berlin's documentary is to ignore the mood-bullying music, cheesy narration and plodding style so you can focus on the touching story at its heart.

| Nov 29, 2004

It should be judged on the basis of its intentions, which are good, its aspirations, which are spectacular, and its morals, which are beyond compare, rather than its aesthetics, which are mediocre.

| Nov 29, 2004

This film of middle school students who managed to create a Holocaust memorial is so self-congratulatory it tugs against the gravity of the Holocaust itself.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 24, 2004

There is something quite heartening about watching these kids earnestly guide others around their memorial, which was four years in the making.

Full Review | Nov 24, 2004

Attests to the transforming and far-reaching power of a simple idea.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 23, 2004

This is an illuminating and moving film, not about the Holocaust so much as it is about compassion, learning, respect, and change, essential viewing for families.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Nov 23, 2004

Patiently told and lovingly made.

Full Review | Sep 29, 2004