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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 Jason M (2,623) on 24 Oct 2016

What an impressive achievement this docudrama is, managing to redeem our species in a story rooted in the nihilism of one troubled man on August…

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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 Johndoe2014 (18) on 15 Oct 2016

This is a great movie. The focus is on the humanity not the killer. So it is different. But it is the closest we can come to being there…

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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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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Oct 2016

Through the recollections of witnesses and victims, the film simultaneously builds a present-tense narrative while portraying the terrifying…

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By Leonard Maltin (609) for leonardmaltin.com (584) on 12 Oct 2016

Whether we're talking about fictional filmmaking or documentaries, Tower is one of the best films of the year…

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By David James (58) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 12 Oct 2016

Propulsive, beautiful and tense as hell, Tower is superior documentary filmmaking…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 12 Oct 2016

Maitland’s experimental approach to a tricky subject leaves viewers with a deeper understanding of a terrible moment in American history…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 12 Oct 2016

Tower is explanatory journalism and history, but also personally expressive, and the two impulses never cancel each other out…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 11 Oct 2016

It's definitely artful but more than a little frustrating…

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By Kevin P. Sullivan (44) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 11 Oct 2016

Tower allies itself with the heroes on the ground and the immeasurable courage they displayed, risking everything for the sake of strangers…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 11 Oct 2016

Director Keith Maitland's Tower is a daring piece of documentary filmmaking…

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