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By Glenn Dunks (375) for Film Experience (395) on 29 Oct 2018

The filmmaking quite rightly plays second fiddle through many of the more climactic sequences, but unfortunately for an audience that doesn't…

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By Sr. Rose Pacatte (156) for National Catholic Reporter (122) on 25 Oct 2018

Cindy's journey, her determination to do well despite everything, is a human triumph…

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By Laura Hiros (161) for Diario La Estrella (Fort Worth, TX) (57) on 14 Oct 2018

At some point during the documentary, the story of a family tragedy begins to find its activism tone, and Rudy's work to document Cindy's life…

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By Amy Glynn (35) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 14 Oct 2018

This is not that film. It's an intimate, small-scale portrait of how a profoundly unintelligent policy impacted one family…

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By Sheila O'malley (474) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 11 Oct 2018

It's an emotionally exhausting film — but a little bit of perspective might have resulted in an even more politically urgent document…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 11 Oct 2018

Here’s a true surprise in 2018: a documentary about an American injustice that will likely leave you, by its end, blubbering tears of relieved joy…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 10 Oct 2018

What unnecessary imprisonment does to families is often written about in abstract terms, but to see what it did to one specific family runs…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 10 Oct 2018

This is a riveting, important story in which the personal can’t help but be political…

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By Ken Jaworowski (128) for New York Times (5,786) on 10 Oct 2018

By making you feel deeply for his sister and her children, Valdez has fashioned his film to make the lapses less glaring…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Oct 2018

Rudy Valdez has no distance from the material, which works simultaneously in the film's favor and, largely, its disfavor…

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By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Aug 2018

It’s a dramatic portrait of institutionalized injustice, though the film is too narrowly focused to plead its case with maximum effectiveness…

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By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 05 Jun 2018

The Sentence is a powerful film full of rich, raw emotions as all parties explore their vulnerabilities…

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By Dan Fienberg (310) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 19 Mar 2018

The Sentence is so committed to its concentration on emotion and heart that it's difficult not to get carried away, and it feels almost churlish…

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Film critics gave The Sentence (2018) an average score of 68%, indicating generally positive reviews.

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