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By Charles Koplinski (232) for Illinois Times (232) on 02 Aug 2017

Lack of Emotional Connection Bogs Down Detroit…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 02 Aug 2017

Detroit, as a movie, is all over the place, yet oddly that messiness is one of its strengths. It is also appropriate. Necessary, even. It fits…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Original Cin (1,156) on 02 Aug 2017

Bigelow and Mark Boal's simply-structured racially-charged horror story is their most harrowing work together…

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By Sam Ashurst (5) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 02 Aug 2017

Admirably intense, but the film lacks focus…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for New England Movies Weekly (716) on 02 Aug 2017

as a 62 year old white film critic, let me point out that there's nothing here that black viewers don't already know…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 02 Aug 2017

Cinematographer Barry Ackroyd gives the movie a visceral immediacy, putting viewers in the middle of the chaos and violence…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 02 Aug 2017

If Bigelow cannot quite bring herself to gracefully end her difficult, challenging movie — which changed studios and finds itself parked…

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By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 02 Aug 2017

It's said you can never make an anti-war movie, that some of the thrill of battle will leak in to even the most pacifistic film…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 02 Aug 2017

If a fact-based drama like Detroit succeeds or fails based on how well it illuminates some of the events that brought us to where we are now,…

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By E. Oliver Whitney (111) for ScreenCrush (954) on 02 Aug 2017

Detroit suffers from muddled intentions and a lack of a clear why…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Aug 2017

Rarely has a movie been more urgently needed than Detroit, yet after delivering on its promise for nearly the entire first half, Detroit goes…

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By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 01 Aug 2017

The film steps on your neck, cutting off your air and daring you to attempt looking away…

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By Carrie Rickey (1,198) for Truthdig (56) on 01 Aug 2017

What the filmmakers leave us with is a deeper understanding of how those five days in July changed lives -- and an implicit hope that that…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 01 Aug 2017

When [Kathryn] Bigelow traps us inside the Algiers [Hotel], Detroit packs more of a punch than any other film this year…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 01 Aug 2017

It's undeniably powerful, meant to unnerve and confront, but it's also something of a missed opportunity and a disappointment, coming after…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 01 Aug 2017

Bigelow has a way of making scripted drama feel like an utterly gripping newsreel…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 Aug 2017

When we finally leave the hotel, the movie’s energy is spent…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Jul 2017

Bigelow has crafted a portrait of the 1967 Detroit uprising that manages to be both history lesson and incendiary device, even if it sometimes…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 31 Jul 2017

Detroit turns inward, toward sustained assault, devolving to that single location [and] an hours-long, night-long siege, drenched in threat…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 31 Jul 2017

Detroit, despite its flaws, is compelling and deeply unsettling…

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