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Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

By Joyce Slaton, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 16+

Bristling docu about Russian protesters may fascinate teens.

Movie NR 2014 88 minutes
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A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

Community Reviews

age 12+

Based on 3 parent reviews

age 2+

Be my friend

What a good name

This title has:

Educational value
Great messages
Great role models
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age 17+

Do they Know The Name Means is A Vagina?

As this is innaappropriate to call a band a Vagaina as young boys perhaps here this, giggle in class to make the daughter mates feel sad and worried! And to think, this is of a justice for a proter? The complaints on a sign are should be complaining about the name of the Pussy! It is innappriproate for kids and should thus be cancelled from your choices.

This title has:

Great messages
Great role models
Too much violence
Too much sex
Too much swearing
Too much drinking/drugs/smoking

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say (3 ):
Kids say (3 ):

Weaned as Westerners are on images of women taking charge, footage of Pussy Riot in action reads to this audience as exciting, inspiring, maybe even a little bit sexy. Learning how the average Russian views their actions is like a bucket of cold water to the face. Russian women aren't supposed to get up and dance around, sing lyrics about the Russian President urinating on himself. To us it looks amusing. To their home country, these women are crazy, obscene, maybe even scary.

Teens will probably be attracted to the way the Pussy Riot looks and sounds, if not as thrilled with the parts of the documentary in which we languish in a courtroom, just like Katia, Masha, and Nadia. Overall, however, this is a moving and relatable document about what looks to be a bunch of carefree twentysomethings who gave a finger to The Man and received one heck of a comeuppance. It may ignite revolutionary tendencies in teens. Whether this is a good or a bad thing is up to you.

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