Review of 37 (2016) by Lynn C — 09 Oct 2016

Dark but gives a new and better explanation of the event.

This review of 37 (2016) was written by Lynn C on 09 Oct 2016.

37 has generally received negative reviews.

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By Andy Webster (339) for New York Times (5,786) on 05 Oct 2016

It is a competent if sometimes heavy-handed affair, a mosaic of fictitious and underexplored characters who hear the assault but are too self-preoccupied…

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By Don S (1,504) on 28 Sep 2017

An indie drama about a fascinating topic: how could 37 people witness the rape and murder of a woman in the streets of New York and not one…

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By Abby Garnett (48) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Oct 2016

For all its postures of humanism, the film is remarkably cold toward the victim herself, who appears only briefly…

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By Angeline L (4) on 03 Mar 2017

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By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Oct 2016

There's a fundamental lack of dramatic exigency in writer-director Puk Grasten's storytelling…

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By Frank Scheck (1,741) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Oct 2016

It's hard to imagine a dull film based on the infamous Kitty Genovese murder, but Danish filmmaker Puk Grasten's fictional take on the horrific,…

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By Gary Garrison (43) for The Playlist (3,871) on 06 Oct 2016

The critical failure of 37 — because certainly a film is allowed to have disdain for its characters; there is no law that art must care for…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 05 Oct 2016

A drama that plays out as an overdetermined thesis, with Genovese herself (Christina Brucato) a footnote to the darkly stylized plunge into…

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By David D (2,198) on 02 Jun 2018

The entire story and point of the movie is lost in the disparate scenes…

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By Candice Frederick (452) for Reel Talk Online (378) on 22 Mar 2017

37 is disturbing for its reported accuracy surrounding the actual death of Genovese, but Grasten doesn't present an effective narrative…

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