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By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Sep 2012

We are left to ponder whether this nightmare might be a harbinger of America's economic prospects. And that is a scary thought indeed…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Newsday (2,345) on 26 Sep 2012

Just as the film finds an aesthetic in its dilapidated setting, the city's residents find hope in a desperate place, a place that once represented…

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By David Denby (676) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 25 Sep 2012

This documentary film, about the deconstruction of a great American city, is surprisingly lyrical and often very moving…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 25 Sep 2012

Detropia' is a tone poem, an impressionistic mosaic that gives you a sense of the city and a pandemic of pessimism that challenges those who…

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By Theresa W (34) on 24 Sep 2012

A beautiful tone-poem about Detroit in all its decaying splendour…

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By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 22 Sep 2012

The dreamlike visual approach makes for undeniably good cinema but as a meaningful examination of why Detroit unraveled, what it's facing,…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 20 Sep 2012

The oddly beautiful documentary made by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Gray is subtler and richer than its blunt title suggests…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 20 Sep 2012

That Detropia won't be just another well-reported urban obituary is clear from the film's arresting opening moments…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Sep 2012

The movie is heavy on statistics (all of them grim), yet what lingers is an operatic sense of tragedy…

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By Julian A (117) on 20 Sep 2012

Beautifully filmed, this was an emotional roller coaster…

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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 Kwabena A (2) on 17 Sep 2012

Clever storytelling by using Detroits cityscape, history and characters to tell its story OWN story…

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By Ed S (121) on 16 Sep 2012

Quick 90 minute overview of where Detriot was, where it is and where it would like to be…

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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 Lee H (754) on 11 Sep 2012

Absolute must-see documentary…

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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 Robie F (2) on 10 Sep 2012

This Documentary is a must see for any one that is interested in Detroit or in the FUTURE of this country…

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By Walter M (1,360) on 08 Sep 2012

Detropia is an eye-opening case study of late model capitalism, as the middle class has all but ceased to exist in Detroit…

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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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