Review of Detroit (2017) by Facebook U — 28 Jul 2017

A cinematically important, hard-hitting indictment of a system gone terribly wrong and in need of fixing, even 50 years after the historical incidents portrayed here. It's the kind of film that will make some viewers uneasily squirm in their seats but that will (and should) make most of us righteously outraged.

Its often-relentless intensity, combined with its painfully heartfelt personal stories, make for a gripping piece of storytelling, particularly when it comes to a little-known and much-forgotten tragedy that today's society should know about.

Director Kathryn Bigelow's and screenwriter Mark Boal's penchant for authenticity and thoroughness is highly commendable (if a bit overplayed at times), but better to be accurate and truthful than to gloss over something that needs to be told in all its ugly candor.