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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 18 Sep 2012

Detropia offers no solution to this crisis, and indeed there may be none. This documentary is more eulogy and elegy…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 18 Sep 2012

The title is an imagined word to describe a hard-to-imagine (but very real) place…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 13 Sep 2012

Detropia offers up a mirror to the country: This is what the future may look like. Now, what do you want to do about it…

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By Gerald Peary (163) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 10 Sep 2012

Makes a telling case that Detroit has gone beyond recession to a full-blown Depression, just like the 1930s…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 05 Sep 2012

What the movie captures overall looks like a scene from a sci-fi, postapocalyptic nightmare…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 05 Sep 2012

The whole experience is one long rant in radiant colors…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for New York Times (5,786) on 05 Sep 2012

Moving from union hall to town hall, from brutal salary negotiations to contentious plans to create urban farms out of concrete wasteland,…

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By Christopher Campbell (291) for Movies.com (1,002) on 05 Sep 2012

The brilliance with this one is pretty subtle, which ought to make it a film you want to watch over and over again…

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By Sam Adams (514) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Sep 2012

The movie's attempt to position Detroit as the canary in the coal mine - there but for the grace of God goes any other city - falls flat, but…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 03 Sep 2012

Imagine if Frederick Wiseman and David Lynch had a bastard child, and you'll get a sense of the movie's off-kilter aesthetic, a potent and…

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By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Sep 2012

The filmmakers pay elegy to the Detroit of the Motown era, with its thriving middle class supported by manufacturing…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 03 Sep 2012

More impressionistic than enlightening, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's Detropia introduces us to some interesting citizens of Detroit and gives…

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By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 03 Sep 2012

Among several recent documentaries about Detroit, the elegiac Detropia is perhaps the most aesthetically pleasing, if not the most informative…

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By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Sep 2012

Seems to be looking for answers, but the ones it finds are too close to the surface to be satisfying…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for AALBC.com (174) on 20 Jul 2012

A simultaneously surrealistic and sobering warning that the Motor City's host of woes might be coming soon to a town near you…

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