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By Ben Nicholson (124) for CineVue (2,163) on 29 Jan 2015

The dark recesses of a diseased mind may make the headline, but it is the indictment of far more widespread infection that rings out and is…

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By Mike Mccahill (552) for Guardian (4,584) on 29 Jan 2015

Tough viewing, but the film-maker's commitment is unmistakable…

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By Katherine Mclaughlin (276) for The List (2,018) on 26 Jan 2015

Broomfield and editors Joe Bini and Marc Hoeferlin construct their film like a maddening and gripping episode of Columbo…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Racket (579) on 24 Dec 2014

The callousness revealed in the film's final scenes is simply heartbreaking. They rate among the most affecting work Broomfield has ever done…

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By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 19 Dec 2014

If there are any heroic figures in this sad tale, it’s the women of Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders, a grassroots activists…

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By Chris Willman (63) for The Playlist (3,871) on 18 Dec 2014

Wisely, Broomfield doesn’t harp on alleged police incompetence, beyond letting a handful of activists and locals repeatedly raise it as an…

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By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 17 Dec 2014

The film is an appropriately dour and intense indictment of a law-enforcement community that did not value the lives of some victims enough…

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By David B (3,254) on 16 Dec 2014

Stunning documentary, in which Broomfield plops down in the middle of South-Central, starts talking to people and in the course of making the…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 12 Dec 2014

An unsettling, maddening eye-opener for anyone concerned about the stigma and horror of poverty, drugs and political indifference to the poor…

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By Gary Goldstein (1,089) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 11 Dec 2014

The film is as much a provocative exposé of Franklin, who awaits trial on murder charges and has proclaimed his innocence, as it is a vivid…

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By Scott Foundas (913) for Variety (12,700) on 08 Dec 2014

What emerges, finally, is an urgent distress call from one of America’s many, predominately black inner cities cast adrift by decades of…

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By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Dec 2014

Broomfield isn't so much dedicated to journalistic truth or social ethnography as he is displaying bodies and mindsets of individuals that…

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By Stephen Dalton (194) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 08 Dec 2014

Tales of the Grim Sleeper is unusually somber and conventional by Broomfield's standards, relying more on slow accumulation of detail than…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Sep 2014

Both an oral history and a lament for a neighborhood whose young women-some hookers, some not-went unprotected and un-avenged by L.A…

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By Keir B (84) on 09 Sep 2014

A fantastic documentary that definitely needs more attention…

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By Christopher Campbell (291) for Nonfics (197) on 07 Sep 2014

Broomfield bounces back after his disappointing Sarah Palin: You Betcha with one of his best yet…

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