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By Sr. Rose Pacatte (156) for National Catholic Reporter (122) on 09 Aug 2017

The intense dramatic violence in that small motel annex felt claustrophobic. Bigelow knows how to make you feel everything…

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By Max Weiss (198) for Baltimore Magazine (197) on 09 Aug 2017

Bigelow is too talented a director to make a film this unsubtle…

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By Teresa Jusino (13) for The Mary Sue (174) on 09 Aug 2017

Detroit is an important film for this moment in our country's history, and it's one that I'd recommend people see…

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By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 08 Aug 2017

It's a broccoli movie all right, and it put me through the wringer…

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By Mitchell Millar (4) for Willamette Week (516) on 08 Aug 2017

Despite a third act that doesn't really fit with the first two, there's a lot to like about Detroit, notably very strong performances by Smith…

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By Rick Kisonak (485) for Seven Days (657) on 08 Aug 2017

At a time when tensions between the black community and police have been strained nearly to the breaking point, Detroit appears designed to…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for The Ringer (285) on 08 Aug 2017

I don't hate Detroit; I simply can't recommend it…

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By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 08 Aug 2017

If Detroit is consistent about anything, it's playacting; everybody in the film does it…

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By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 08 Aug 2017

An important film, engrossing and deeply upsetting…

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By Josephine Livingstone (57) for The New Republic (897) on 07 Aug 2017

The violence in Detroit is gratuitous simply because there is so much of it and it is so profoundly repugnant…

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By Vincent Mancini (369) for FilmDrunk (362) on 07 Aug 2017

Despite solid performances from a brilliant cast, Detroit's take on the subject matter is inconsistent and confusing, glossing over motive…

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By Tim Cogshell (223) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 06 Aug 2017

For Black Americans, the events of Detroit '67 are not the events of a 'dramatic thriller.' They are the events of a tragedy and still-living…

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By Victoria Alexander (762) for FilmsInReview.com (462) on 06 Aug 2017

This is an unnecessarily provocative account…

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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 06 Aug 2017

Bigelow doesn't have as original, as distinctive, as reflective a sense of cinematic drama as the extraordinary subject matter of Detroit requires…

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By David Kaplan (436) for Kaplan vs. Kaplan (1,174) on 05 Aug 2017

Detroit is Bigelow's powerfully told vision of yet another dark time in American history…

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By Jeanne Kaplan (738) for Kaplan vs. Kaplan (1,174) on 05 Aug 2017

Bigelow has once again established herself as one of the premier directors of her generation --- male or female…

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By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 05 Aug 2017

Director Kathryn Bigelow's film about the 1967 riots in Detroit is a brilliantly mounted recount of an American tragedy…

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By Erin Whitney (65) for ScreenCrush (954) on 04 Aug 2017

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

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 04 Aug 2017

The film has a documentary immediacy; Bigelow captures the hair-trigger intensity of this unbearably tense situation, via the restless, unsettling…

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By Thelma Adams (133) for New York Observer (1,400) on 03 Aug 2017

Reteaming Bigelow and Boal, Detroit lacks the clarity of their previous collaborations but the ambitious period drama maintains their power…

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