Vito doesn't always establish the scope of the gay rights movement, but it very clearly shows Vito Russo's particular influence on it. Whenever it's intensely personal, featuring interviews with close friends and family, this is a truly moving portrait of the great gay activist and film historian. It occasionally gets too broad to be exemplary documentary filmmaking, especially when it tackles AIDS in the last 30 minutes where it's eclipsed entirely by the far stronger How to Survive a Plague.
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