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‘Toxic Hot Seat’ Review

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Christopher Campbell
Nov 20, 2013
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Toxic Hot Seat is, first and foremost, an excellent work of journalism. It’s also an “issue documentary,” a genre that these days has a bit of a bad reputation among some critics. Yet, as this new film from Kirby Walker and James Redford (The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia) proves so articulately, the “film with a cause” isn’t necessarily a discrete c…

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