Detroit
Amidst the chaos of the Detroit Rebellion, with the city under curfew and as the Michigan National Guard patrolled the streets, three young African American men were murdered at the Algiers Motel.
20 October 1979, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
23 September 1978, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
1960, USA
21 December 1996, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
August 11, 2017
Yes, the movie's harrowing middle hour is almost too excruciating to endure. It upsets viewers and sends them streaming for the exits because it's supposed to.
August 10, 2017
Detroit is an important film for this moment in our country's history, and it's one that I'd recommend people see.
August 10, 2017
The intense dramatic violence in that small motel annex felt claustrophobic. Bigelow knows how to make you feel everything.
August 11, 2017
The final movement of Detroit feels more like the work of an awards-grubber, and exposes [Bigelow's] general awkwardness with warmth.
August 04, 2017
This may be the point that racist violence reduces its victims to an atrocious nothingness. But the unrelenting atrocity, so lacking in dramatic or emotional modulation, becomes numbing.
August 13, 2017
Sordid and sadistic, it's filled with so much excessive violence that it induces revulsion, emerging as exploitative, racial torture pornography.
August 04, 2017
Somewhere between a Straw Dogs-style "survive the night" home invasion narrative, Milgram experiment moral problem play and racial torture porn.
August 07, 2017
Bigelow doesn't have as original, as distinctive, as reflective a sense of cinematic drama as the extraordinary subject matter of "Detroit" requires.
August 11, 2017
Bigelow's recent work is a cinema of big, difficult questions, but its cold treatment of trauma often leaves an empty impression, one that doesn't make the viewer understand or appreciate the moral implications of evil.
August 04, 2017
Reteaming Bigelow and Boal, Detroit lacks the clarity of their previous collaborations but the ambitious period drama maintains their power to disturb, and question what it is to be an American.
August 03, 2017
It's hard to overstate just how visceral and harrowing an experience it is. Detroit is a well-made and evocative film that is also numbingly brutal with little to no reprieve.
August 08, 2017
The violence in Detroit is gratuitous simply because there is so much of it and it is so profoundly repugnant.
