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By Benjamin B (444) on 06 Jun 2014

A bit of an uneven film for people like me who don't know the background to the story…

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By Richard S (2,067) on 06 Jun 2014

This is the true and tragic tale of the unlawful shooting of Oscar Grant by police officers in 2008…

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By Ashley Clark (57) for Sight and Sound (827) on 05 Jun 2014

It focuses on its subject's humanity and assesses the tragedy on a personal rather than explicitly sociopolitical level…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 05 Jun 2014

The film's version of Grant has been carefully calibrated to be just nice enough to scare up empathy and just mischievous enough to take some…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 05 Jun 2014

Jordan doesn't beg for our sympathy and is all the more magnetic as a result. The finale is devastating…

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By Patrick Gamble (128) for CineVue (2,163) on 04 Jun 2014

It's Coogler's confrontational depiction of police brutality and his attempts to represent the society he aims to inspire and inform that makes…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 04 Jun 2014

There is something almost spiritual in the eerie importance that all the ordinary, banal facts of a life achieve under scrutiny, as time is…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 04 Jun 2014

Why is goodhearted liberal cinema sometimes so dumb…

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By Tim Evans (725) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 04 Jun 2014

Coogler's spare, sombre style serves the story well, skillfully avoiding cliche and formula to soberly rage against a grave miscarriage of justice…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 04 Jun 2014

While admitting the man’s flaws, Coogler chooses to give Oscar the benefit of the doubt, which is precisely what he didn’t get on that…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 04 Jun 2014

Just... no. This is heartstring-tugging hooey…

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By Chris Fyvie (70) for The Skinny (809) on 03 Jun 2014

It's an emotive film about an emotive incident, but an unmolested account of Grant's demise could have had so much more impact…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 03 Jun 2014

This chronicle of a death foretold celebrates an individual's efforts to do better even as it laments his - and his nation's - difficulties…

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By John C (2,737) on 02 Jun 2014

It's a good movie even knowing how it ends…

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By Simon Braund (70) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 01 Jun 2014

A deeply moving drama played out on the small stage of ordinary people’s lives…

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By Brandon S (2,121) on 31 May 2014

What I loved most about this film was Coogler's portrayal of Grant, as well as Jordan's performance…

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By Aaron F (285) on 31 May 2014

Michael B. Jordan has a star-making performance in this great powerful drama that's on the caliber of Menace II Socety, Boyz In The Hood, & Juice…

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By Maria U (58) on 27 May 2014

A beautiful movie that movies you in a way that your not used to…

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By Mike P (1,383) on 26 May 2014

Heart wrenching, and of course close to home as we were living in Oakland pretty close to Fruitvale Station at the time…

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By Epifania A (74) on 22 May 2014

Fruitvale Station is a powerful cinematic indictment of gratuitous police brutality that leaves the viewer with so much heaviness of heart…

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