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By Linda Cook (1,442) for Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (1,206) on 28 Jul 2013

It's funny how the bloated, overly lengthy studio blockbusters have far less impact than 90 minutes of a relatively brief, CGI-free 'little…

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By Tony Medley (1,109) for Tolucan Times (639) on 28 Jul 2013

The slow first hour is more than compensated for by the half hour climax that leaves one in tears…

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By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 27 Jul 2013

As Grant, Michael B…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Racket (579) on 26 Jul 2013

Without emotion-tweaking music or too much fictional streamlining and highlighting, he captures a sense of the random and pointless horror…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Denver Post (1,096) on 25 Jul 2013

It's hard not to watch Fruitvale Station with a coiled dread…

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By Matt Kelemen (219) for AspectRatio.us (70) on 25 Jul 2013

After seeing Fruitvale Station you should come away with the impulse to muse on the life behind the next tragic homicide in the news that sparks…

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By Michael Smith (475) for Tulsa World (603) on 25 Jul 2013

The film is both personal and universal. Jordan can be so touching, and his intimidating ferocity is palpable…

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By Rich Heldenfels (76) for Akron Beacon Journal (177) on 25 Jul 2013

Was Oscar Grant going to turn his life around? We'll never know because of a pointless act of violence…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 25 Jul 2013

Coogler's take quietly serves to show Grant as a human being, with his flaws and redeeming qualities, and not just as a face in a newspaper obituary…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 25 Jul 2013

a palpably low-key premise that's employed to continuously engrossing effect by first-time writer/director Ryan Coogler…

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By Mathew Dekinder (396) for Suburban Journals of St. Louis (395) on 25 Jul 2013

Fruitvale Station' is a movie people are going to be talking about and it's a conversation you don't want to be left out of…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Grantland (318) on 25 Jul 2013

You wonder if Coogler would have felt freer had Grant somehow lived that night, if the director weren't put in a position where he felt the…

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By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 25 Jul 2013

Many recent movies so cavalierly dispense thousands upon thousands of ammunition rounds, you can sometimes forget the effect that one bullet…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for Times-Picayune (642) on 25 Jul 2013

Fruitvale Station is only the first in a string of civil-rights minded movies set to hit theaters this year -- contributing to what could be…

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By Geoff Pevere (572) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 25 Jul 2013

We feel the death on the platform so acutely not because it's a stupid act of randomness, but hardly untypical racist violence, but because…

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By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 25 Jul 2013

Michael B. Jordan (The Wire and Friday Night Lights) plays Oscar with the heart and compelling charm required to make us feel close to him…

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By Jim Judy (1,199) for Screen It! (1,437) on 25 Jul 2013

What's presented here is good, and it's an important film to see for its coverage of the subject matter that unfortunately is still making…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for About.com (1,470) on 25 Jul 2013

Benefits immeasurably from its piercing lead performances, stumbling only in its over-eagerness to make its points…

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By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 24 Jul 2013

Coogler occasionally overplays his hand: The scene in which Oscar says goodbye to his daughter for what we know will be the last time is prolonged…

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By Katherine Monk (493) for Canada.com (402) on 24 Jul 2013

Beautifully human at every level, and visually poetic without a hint of pretense, Fruitvale Station isn't just one of the best films of the…

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