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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Nov 2016

Despite the grim topic, Tower offers moments of genuine hope in the acts of bravery and kindness that took place during the siege…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 03 Nov 2016

Keith Maitland’s Tower is a stunningly powerful and gripping documentary…

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By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 02 Nov 2016

Keith Maitland’s powerful and emotional documentary Tower — easily one of the best films of the year — takes a novel approach for a nonfiction…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 31 Oct 2016

Elemental yet expressionistic, Tower is an admirable attainment, a broadside from the solar plexus, and the powerhouse ending, partially narrated…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue (704) on 27 Oct 2016

There's plenty of contemporary resonance to this gripping documentary…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 26 Oct 2016

Maitland's skillful assemblage of material gives his recounting of the terrible event remarkable immediacy while also endowing it with nightmarishly…

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By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 26 Oct 2016

It brings the terror of those 90 minutes on a sizzling 100-degree August day to vivid life…

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By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 26 Oct 2016

Tower manages to collapse the space between past and present, which, given the timeliness of the subject matter, has a haunting effect…

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By Soren Anderson (264) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 26 Oct 2016

Maitland has created a documentary with a remarkable you-are-there immediacy…

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By Andrew Wright (312) for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (891) on 26 Oct 2016

The film's combination of archival footage and Waking Life-ish rotoscoped animation…

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By Soren Andersen (496) for The Seattle Times (964) on 26 Oct 2016

The interweaving of animation and nonanimated footage gives the picture a kind of surreal quality that befits the sense of the survivors of…

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By Glenn Dunks (375) for Film Experience (395) on 25 Oct 2016

What archival footage there is of the shooting event is effortlessly woven into the narrative, acting as a recurring reminder that this was…

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By Julia Felsenthal (28) for Vogue (149) on 19 Oct 2016

Those animations swirl in and out, replaced occasionally by archival footage and photographs…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 18 Oct 2016

Director Keith Maitland’s film is one of the finest documentaries ever made, and it’s also one of the most unusual…

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By Josh Lasser (114) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 16 Oct 2016

It is certainly a blurring of the lines between fact and fiction, but the result of Maitland's documentary is a new sort of truth of the University…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 14 Oct 2016

Tower' isn't looking back on the tragedy - it's living in it, a tick-tock of an afternoon's terror, as uncertain of its causes or its outcome…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 13 Oct 2016

I love when non-fiction filmmakers stretch the form and attempt, with as much honesty as they can muster, to put us in the middle of the events…

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By S. Jhoanna Robledo (697) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 13 Oct 2016

Doc uses animation to tell intense story of 1966 shooting…

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By Ian Bailey (1) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 13 Oct 2016

Animation seems an odd means of addressing such a grim tragedy, but it gives Maitland the creative freedom to effectively tell a suspenseful,…

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By Andy Crump (279) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 13 Oct 2016

That the film is as meaningful today as it would have been in 1966 is a grim testament to how little things have changed since then, though…

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