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By Chris Klimek (121) for NPR (1,713) on 02 Aug 2017

Maddeningly imperfect but still honorable…

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By Michael Smith (475) for Tulsa World (603) on 02 Aug 2017

Detroit is a well-crafted movie, but the filmmakers keep the characters at a distance from us, in a manner that is as detached as the film itself…

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By Charles Ealy (164) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 02 Aug 2017

Expect to see multiple Oscar nominations for Detroit…

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By Tony Medley (1,109) for Tolucan Times (639) on 02 Aug 2017

What's shown on the screen is not only frightening; it is debilitating to sit through...I saw it at a 10 a.m…

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By Clint O'connor (453) for Akron Beacon Journal (177) on 02 Aug 2017

It's a powerful reminder of our ugly past and a hugely important topic, but it is not an especially captivating film…

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By Calvin Wilson (480) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 02 Aug 2017

The film is hard to watch, but its timeliness is impossible to ignore…

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By Roger Tennis (246) for Cinemaclips.com (246) on 02 Aug 2017

A striking dramatization blended with graphic newsreel footage makes this an absorbing and, at times, harrowing experience…

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By Erin Oliver Whitney (38) for ScreenCrush (954) on 02 Aug 2017

Skillfullybrings a still-relevant history to the screen, but is Bigelow'sretellingfor the education of white audiences, or to understand violence…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Aug 2017

Bigelow and Boal want to make a moral howl of a movie that burns with felt life, but they wind up with a failure of historical imagination…

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By Mario Alegre (61) for Primera Hora (7) on 02 Aug 2017

Detroit is an extraordinarily accomplished sequence within a good movie. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Sandy Schaefer (333) for ScreenRant (1,013) on 02 Aug 2017

Detroit makes for a disturbing and unnerving portrayal of real historical events, but has less success as a work of sociopolitical commentary…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 02 Aug 2017

The injustice and anger behind it all feels like current reality, even a half-century on, making Detroit urgent viewing regardless of its character-development…

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By Steve Persall (1,105) for Tampa Bay Times (1,287) on 02 Aug 2017

We are there although Detroit squanders that sensation on revulsion, a gut punch needing to take more shots at our heads…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 02 Aug 2017

The film is imperfect, but for anyone who still harbors delusions about systemic racism and police-community relations, Detroit is an important…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 02 Aug 2017

Flaws and all, Detroit is still well worth seeing -- shedding a sobering light on an extreme case of criminality under the color of authority…

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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 02 Aug 2017

Detroit is a crushingly visceral experience, one filled with indignation not only for what went on in 1967 but for today's troubling displays…

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By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 02 Aug 2017

Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal return with a ferociously angry social horror movie…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 02 Aug 2017

Lines are drawn and connections are made. The intentions are pure…

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By Robert Horton (590) for Seattle Weekly (293) on 02 Aug 2017

Bigelow is trying to get us to feel something -- what it's like to be terrorized by the forces that are supposed to be protecting us, for one…

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By Allyson Johnson (161) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 02 Aug 2017

Perhaps, with another writer on board or a more diverse production team, there might've been a marriage of conceptual visuals and delicate…

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