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Movie Review: 'Milk' among best films of the year

Published 12/05/08

Democracy at the street level makes for great theater. Shipyard workers in Gdansk, the newly enfranchised in Selma or the newly liberated in Baghdad - "people power" is electrifying to behold.

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"Milk," the long, long awaited bio-film of gay politician and "community organizer" Harvey Milk, is filled with such political thrills. It's about a man who pioneered the cause, was elected to office as an openly gay man and who was martyred, just as he always predicted.

This history, brought vividly to life by filmmaker Gus Van Sant and a great cast headed by Sean Penn, debuts as a "community...

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