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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 17 Oct 2012

You will hear a Lincoln historian, Richard Lawrence Miller, compare the War on Drugs to the Holocaust and be convinced…

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By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 17 Oct 2012

Jarecki takes a highly original approach to create a compelling, thought-provoking look at a highly relevant and controversial topic…

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By Lamontraymond (377) on 16 Oct 2012

It's a good documentary in that there are so many issues addressed therein that require examination (and often indignation), but it goes a…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 13 Oct 2012

It's hard to deny the frustration of judges and correctional officers who have seen people locked away for decades while drug usage remains constant…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 10 Oct 2012

It's a film as profoundly sad as it is enraging and potentially galvanizing, and it's one of the most important pieces of nonfiction to hit…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Oct 2012

Jarecki's case is so compelling that, when he concludes by comparing the drug war to the Holocaust, the obvious charge of hyperbole doesn't…

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By Sean Oconnell (919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 10 Oct 2012

Technically, The House I Live In isn't season six of The Wire…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 09 Oct 2012

Jarecki's film makes a shattering case against the War on Drugs…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 04 Oct 2012

Jarecki's thesis is that law enforcement targets minority communities, but his analysis is far too simplistic. Since when did pushers become victims…

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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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