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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 14 Jul 2013

There's great soul to the work, which gives a complete picture of a young man's life in microcosmic form…

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By Craig Seligman (44) for Bloomberg News (117) on 14 Jul 2013

BART allowed Coogler to shoot on location, and the young filmmaker, working with a score of actors and a crowd of extras, shows more competence…

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By Michael Dequina (1,684) for TheMovieReport.com (1,582) on 13 Jul 2013

Coogler shows the storytelling maturity and restraint to keep the focus squarely on the characters, not so much on the actual act of bloodshed…

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By Wilson Morales (206) for BlackFilm.com (211) on 12 Jul 2013

Fruitvale Station,' is one the most endearing and profound films that echoes the essence of humanity…

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By Steve Boone (3) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 11 Jul 2013

In many ways, Fruitvale Station is as green and earnest as Boyz N the Hood, a debut film made by another alumnus of Coogler's alma mater, USC…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 11 Jul 2013

The only character in the film who seems to have the requisite gravity is Oscar’s mother, Wanda (the marvelous Octavia Spencer), whose scene…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 11 Jul 2013

Coogler's film is shaky, sometimes literally slipping out of focus even as its own vision remains resolutely blinkered…

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By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Jul 2013

The actual events already serve as a parable of race in America, but Coogler's dramatization does them justice…

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By Steven Boone (45) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 11 Jul 2013

Fruitvale Station is about what we can imagine when we cast our gaze across the longstanding divides in this persistently, cancerously segregated…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for HitFix (861) on 11 Jul 2013

Many will respond to the film as a gut-level human interest piece, but it's as curtailed and nuance-free a character study as it is a political…

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By Leonard Maltin (609) for leonardmaltin.com (584) on 11 Jul 2013

The closeness of family and the feeling of community comes across as genuine in every scene…

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By Caryn James (352) for James on screenS (89) on 11 Jul 2013

Galvanizing, tense gritty-indie, brilliantly acted by Jordan and Spencer…

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By Ethan Alter (997) for Television Without Pity (337) on 11 Jul 2013

A noble effort to contextualize the life of a man who would become famous for the way that he died…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 10 Jul 2013

Fruitvale Station is a gut punch of a movie. By standing in solidarity with Oscar, it becomes an unstoppable cinematic force…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 10 Jul 2013

Mr…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 10 Jul 2013

The film, then, places a heavy hand on the scales of justice as it winds up with a fuzzy plea — an implied demand for a second, federal civil…

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By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 10 Jul 2013

While Jordan is responsible for making Oscar Grant come to life, Coogler deserves equal if not more praise for having so successfully created…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 10 Jul 2013

The real power of Fruitvale Station is in reminding us all that whenever we hear about a death -- random, accidental, foreseen or otherwise…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 10 Jul 2013

an emotionally devastating feature film debut...Yet for all its mastery of foreshadowing amidst the minutiae of daily life, Coogler and…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 10 Jul 2013

At the age of 27 Mr…

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