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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 Me I (1) on 26 Jul 2017

Left wing history revisionism at its worst…

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By Zach B (271) on 25 Jul 2017

An unbelievably important film that gives a brutal look into the events of the 1967 Detroit riot…

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By Louise C (140) on 25 Jul 2017

L was blown away by how well this movie was made. Believe me it was hard to watch but we'll worth the journey…

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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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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 25 Jul 2017

Anthony Mackie is a standout as a careful Vietnam vet, a guy who's only moved from one battlefield to another…

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By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 25 Jul 2017

Kathryn Bigelow's tough docudrama Detroit begins as a frightening, authentic re-creation of the Motor City's 1967 race riots, then roller-coasters…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 25 Jul 2017

To watch Bigelow’s expertly calibrated chaos during the riots’ escalation – nothing short of block-by-block guerilla warfare – is to…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 25 Jul 2017

This is a sombre, grieving movie which appears to gesture to the ghost-town ruin that is still in Detroit’s future…

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By Josh Slater-Williams (157) for The Skinny (809) on 25 Jul 2017

While its centrepiece section justifies a recommendation all on its own, the material that makes up the rest of Detroit is not without some problems…

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By Scott S (1,964) on 25 Jul 2017

L was blown away by how well this movie was made. Believe me it was hard to watch but we'll worth the journey…

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By Don Kaye (124) for Den of Geek (424) on 24 Jul 2017

Detroit is a must-see film not only because it recreates an era and a series of incidents that could easily be forgotten in today's culture…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 24 Jul 2017

A handful of films, from The Battle of Algiers to Paul Greengrass' splendid Bloody Sunday, have met the challenge of dramatizing civil unrest…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 24 Jul 2017

It's a hardcore masterpiece that digs into our violent past to hold up a dark mirror to the systemic racism that still rages in the here and now…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 24 Jul 2017

Anyone who doesn't understand the Black Lives Matter movement would be well advised to take in Kathryn Bigelow's terrifyingly immersive account…

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