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By Will Leitch (411) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 27 Jul 2017

It’s an overwhelming horror movie—maybe a little too overwhelming…

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By Angelica Jade Bastién (65) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 27 Jul 2017

Detroit was directed, written, produced, shot, and edited by white creatives who do not understand the weight of the images they hone in on…

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By Julian Roman (454) for MovieWeb (460) on 27 Jul 2017

Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal return to greatness with Detroit…

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By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer (260) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 27 Jul 2017

As the film’s scope reduces, it builds in horrific momentum…

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By Dwight Brown (181) for National Newspaper Publishers Association (180) on 26 Jul 2017

After sitting through Detroit's two hours and twenty-three minutes of incessant tragedy, it is hard to come up with any salvation…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 26 Jul 2017

Detroit may be tricked out with the Motown and miniskirts of the era, but its police-brutality narrative, assembled with firsthand accounts…

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By Ryan Oliver (25) for The Playlist (3,871) on 26 Jul 2017

While Detroit may try and cover too much ground, thus occasionally stumbling on its ambition, the sheer visceral power of Bigelow’s direction…

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By Simon Crook (112) for Empire (3,446) on 26 Jul 2017

A gruelling, nightmarish, ferociously vivid riot epic that recreates one of the darkest chapters in American history…

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By Kevin Maher (647) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 26 Jul 2017

It ranks as one of the most bleak, most harrowing, and harrowingly significant, movies about US racial dynamics to have emerged from the studio…

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By Mara Reinstein (308) for MaraMovies.com (42) on 26 Jul 2017

The scenes are powerful; the characters are powerless. The result is a sense of utter claustrophobia and dread…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 26 Jul 2017

[A]ll of it becomes a harsh reminder that, even though we may learn from the past, we still seem doomed to repeat it…

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By Andrea Mandell (2) for USA Today (4,117) on 26 Jul 2017

The film's unflinching gaze on a lawless night will likely be politicized, but calling Detroit anti-police misses the mark…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 26 Jul 2017

The reason films like Detroit are important isn’t just because they remind us that the more things change, the more they stay the same; it’s…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 26 Jul 2017

Dramatically relentless and emotionally shattering, it brings news from a turbulent past that casts a baleful light on America’s troubled present…

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By Tal Rosenberg (16) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Jul 2017

The filmmakers are less successful at explaining the social context of the riot or portraying the aftermath of the violence, though these shortcomings…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Jul 2017

What makes Detroit vital is not that its images are new or revelatory, but rather that Bigelow and Boal have succeeded, with enviable coherence…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Jul 2017

Detroit is a movie that will make you angry…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 26 Jul 2017

It comes across as incomplete, its metaphors, bit characters, traumas, and tacked-on subplots never threading together into a larger canvas—a…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 25 Jul 2017

The film’s struggle against simplification — against the sentimentality, wishful thinking and outright denial that defines most Hollywood…

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By Matt Goldberg (248) for Collider (1,032) on 25 Jul 2017

Ingenious storytelling by Bigelow. By forcing the audience to ask Well why didn't they just do this…

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