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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 04 Oct 2012

Eugene Jarecki, an adept chronicler of corrosive societal corruption, offers a thoughtful look at the human cost of the epic, decades-long…

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By Christopher Campbell (291) for Movies.com (1,002) on 04 Oct 2012

A true nonfiction complement to The Wire…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 04 Oct 2012

The evidence Jarecki amasses against the drug wars in The House I Live In is more than strong enough to withstand any excess rhetorical zeal…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 04 Oct 2012

The House I Live In shows Nannie Jeter as she hopefully watches Barack Obama's 2008 electoral victory, but doesn't analyze the current president's…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 03 Oct 2012

It's easy to take issue with a documentary like The House I Live In, which tackles too much in too brief a time and glosses over complexities,…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 03 Oct 2012

A personal work not because the director chooses to make himself a part of the story, but rather because he implicates all of us in it…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 03 Oct 2012

The scope of the subject is such that when Mr…

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By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 03 Oct 2012

While it's messily put together, with a sprawling and at times unfocused narrative that often gets in the way of itself, it doesn't deny the…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 03 Oct 2012

As is, the film is more likely to impress the choir than change many minds…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 02 Oct 2012

David Simon, creator of The Wire, who argues that the targeting of minorities, fused with mandatory sentencing, has turned the war on drugs…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Oct 2012

The result is a movie that jumps all over the place, but with the ultimate intention of showing how the public's attitudes and assumptions…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 01 Oct 2012

Whenever the film focuses more on Jarecki's hand-wringing than deconstructing the war itself, you wish someone would have looked the filmmaker…

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By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

What's riveting and attention grabbing in Jarecki's recapitulations of failed policy are some of the talking heads he has assembled, including…

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By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Sep 2012

The mixture of different techniques and varied views results in a rich, multi-faceted look at one of America's most misguided policy initiatives…

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By Tom Clift (226) for Moviedex (362) on 14 Aug 2012

A fantastically constructed, unrelentingly compelling look at one of the biggest ongoing injustices in American society today…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 03 May 2012

Important documentaries like this one can spark a range of responses: righteous anger, informed action or exhausted hopelessness…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 23 Apr 2012

Jarecki, as always, does a good job of presenting a huge amount of information in bite-size chunks…

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By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 10 Feb 2012

Powerful doc argues that the War on Drugs needs a dramatic rethinking…

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By Kate Erbland (681) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 01 Feb 2012

It's a truly informative documentary, though it sags on occasion, and feels much longer than its 110-minute runtime…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 26 Jan 2012

A ballsy mix of interviews and editorializing that's daring enough to question a costly crackdown that has long had the public's support…

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