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By Roxanne R (343) on 30 Nov 2014

Bravo to the cast and crew of this Indy film…

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By Nathan M (1,055) on 28 Nov 2014

A quiet and haunting film about slavery and about the lengths people will go to survive…

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By Linda Cook (1,442) for Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (1,206) on 26 May 2014

It's not a coming-of-age movie, and it's not a slavery movie. Nor is 'The Retrieval' a Civil War movie…

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By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 21 May 2014

less a Civil War picture than a road movie and a coming-of-age tale…

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By Don Simpson (18) for Film Threat (5,156) on 18 May 2014

Like the subject of a well-told proverb, Will is forced to learn about loyalty and trust while he navigates the dense moral grayness between…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Orange County Register (218) on 14 May 2014

The Retrieval's potency transcends its scope. It shows you, in microcosm, the sacrifices that forge the conscience not only of a boy, but of a nation…

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By Marty Mapes (591) for Movie Habit (892) on 14 May 2014

It's no 12 Years a Slave but this is you how make a good film on a small budget…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 May 2014

The Retrieval comes at you like a haunting slip of a memory, one that writer-director Chris Eska retrieves from a mostly forgotten era in unforgettable…

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By Charles Ealy (164) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 30 Apr 2014

With a relatively small budget, [director Chris Eska] vividly re-creates the rural South during the Civil War and tells a compelling story…

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By Brad Keefe (343) for Columbus Alive (355) on 30 Apr 2014

At its heart, it's a story of journey, as the three central characters traverse the land and are only tangentially affected by the distant…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Apr 2014

Although Eska’s story is fairly simple (and created prior to 12 Years a Slave and Django Unchained, which made slavery-era films part of…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 23 Apr 2014

It is indeed a beautiful film, but with each horizon tinged with sadness…

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By Steven Mears (12) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 20 Apr 2014

Despite its plentiful achievements, The Retrieval hews too closely to familiar coming-of-age tropes and demonstrates a frustrating reluctance…

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By Mike H (1,369) on 16 Apr 2014

The Retrieval starts in Virgnia in 1864 with young Will(Ashton Sanders) seeking shelter at a station on the Underground Railroad which turns…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for Baret News (418) on 03 Apr 2014

Slavery revisited as a sick institution making for strange bedfellows…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 02 Apr 2014

Despite its meager budget, The Retrieval is characterized by its authenticity…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 02 Apr 2014

The film’s reckoning, when it comes, is fully as heartbreaking as it should be…

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By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 01 Apr 2014

More than any film in recent memory, The Retrieval made this reviewer yearn for the subtle softness and subliminal flicker of celluloid, as…

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By Andrew Frisicano (12) for Time Out (7,510) on 31 Mar 2014

Along the way, director Chris Eska provides ample space for his principals to breathe, wisely homing in on the uneasy gaze of the guidance-starved…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 31 Mar 2014

While The Retrieval’s sense of place may ultimately be stronger than its sense of purpose, it works as the story of a young boy realizing…

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