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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 07 Jul 2013

[VIDEO ESSAY] Bookended by footage of the killing, as recorded on cell-phones by innocent bystanders, Fruitvale Station is a cautionary reminder…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for AALBC.com (174) on 06 Jul 2013

Whether Oscar Grant deserves to be remembered as a martyr or a provocateur, this poignant portrait of him as a flawed free-spirit is moving…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 05 Jul 2013

A narrative based on a tragic true story conventionally told…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 03 Jul 2013

Fruitvale Station will rock your world — and, if the life of Oscar Grant means anything, compel you to work to change it…

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By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Jul 2013

Sensitively performed and laced with some forceful quotidian grit, the film evades the larger questions behind a scandalous shooting death…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 02 Jul 2013

The compelling true story of a 22-year-old African-American whose effort to turn his life around was cut short by the unnecessary violence…

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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 30 Jun 2013

The movie is the model of decency and respect, and does honor to a life unjustly ended; it offers few surprises but is nonetheless shocking…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for ScreenCrush (954) on 30 May 2013

If you aren't choked up at the end, you may have some kind of problem…

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By Shaun Munro (472) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 18 May 2013

An exceptional dramatic feature propelled by strong performances across the board…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 May 2013

Fruitvale Station is impressive for a debut, and displays the unimpeachable intent to involve us all in the human story behind a headline…

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By Xan Brooks (287) for Guardian (4,584) on 16 May 2013

The robust acting and sharp sense of the Bay Area milieu glides us nicely over the film's few soft patches…

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By Simon Gallagher (50) for What Culture (594) on 15 May 2013

Michael Jordan's Grant is remarkably sympathetic, and his story develops in a way that adds an awful note to the opening scene, as the arc…

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By David D'arcy (130) for Screen International (2,241) on 13 May 2013

With a sympathetic and not too heavy hand, Fruitvale Station takes its audience through the constant challenges to black family life - poverty,…

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By Amanda May Meyncke (5) for Film.com (1,892) on 05 Apr 2013

Fruitvale is outstanding, a telling portrait and testament to the life of one man and the complicated relationships to race and class that…

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By Geoff Berkshire (602) for Variety (12,700) on 05 Apr 2013

Even if every word of Coogler’s account of the last day in Grant’s life held up under close scrutiny, the film would still ring false in…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 10 Mar 2013

Fruitvale is largely sustained by Jordan's career-making performance and the way Coogler uses it to analyze his subject...It's a fascinating…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 10 Mar 2013

As Oscar, Jordan at moments gives off vibes of a very young Denzel Washington in the way he combines gentleness and toughness; he effortlessly…

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By Michael Dunaway (10) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 01 Feb 2013

If you leave the film with dry eyes, you're a hell of a lot stronger than me, or than anyone in the Eccles theater the night I saw the film…

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