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By Sandy C (79) on 14 Sep 2017

Could the film maker be any angrier of a person…

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By Suzi Feay (9) for Financial Times (1,822) on 13 Sep 2017

If the excerpts from the diary leading up to his death don't break your heart, you probably haven't got one…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Sep 2017

This is cinematic intimacy in the best manner for the worst of all reasons…

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By Ken Jaworowski (128) for The New York Times (9,847) on 13 Sep 2017

This potent film gives equal weight to complex emotions as well as bare facts…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Sep 2017

For all its raw pain, Strong Island is also a scrupulously shaped work, one of striking compositions and juxtapositions, its faces and revelations…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 13 Sep 2017

As fingers move Polaroids around in the frame, or faces in jarring close-up grapple with unresolved tragedy, you realize Strong Island is a…

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By Jamie Broadnax (55) for Black Girl Nerds (256) on 12 Sep 2017

It's clear that the filmmaker wants you to feel the same kind of hurt and anger he feels as more information unfolds about William Ford Jr.'s death…

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By Victoria L (1) on 12 Sep 2017

Brilliant, heartbreaking, in your face honest and utterly gripping. You will love the Fords, and feel their pain, confusion, betrayal…

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By Eric L (1,000) on 12 Sep 2017

A must-see doc for our time. An important work that's both intimate and global on scope. In short, a masterpiece…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for The Ringer (285) on 11 Sep 2017

The pain of Will's death is very much present, still, and Strong Island-one of the best films of the year-is an attempt to harness it…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Sep 2017

The effect is stark, expressionistic, and powerful. It creates the sense that what’s being said is important…

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By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Sep 2017

Yance Ford’s film builds into an emotionally, intellectually, and aesthetically complex work of essay and memoir…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Sep 2017

What emerges is a very close, tender look at the Ford family…

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By David D'arcy (130) for Screen International (2,241) on 01 Sep 2017

This documentary reminds us that justice can be as elusive in the US suburbs as anywhere else, and that having guns keeps people who are born…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Sep 2017

Solemn, searching and at times even poetic in its indignation, this is a sensitively crafted contemplation of corrosive grief, even if the…

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By Al F (48) on 15 May 2017

Such an amazing and moving movie. By far one of the best documentarys ive seen…

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By Glenn Dunks (375) for Film Experience (395) on 14 Mar 2017

Slyly edited in a way that plays with timelines and repetitions, while also allowing her interview subjects to occasionally veer on tangents,…

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By April W (341) on 14 Mar 2017

This will open your eyes to our justice system…

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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 13 Mar 2017

Ford is more than a witness—he is a crucial participant in the events of the film, and its elements of pain and guilt are reflected in his…

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By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 06 Mar 2017

Ford displays a strong visual sense that raises this film above the many true-crime documentaries now in circulation…

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