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The Central Park Five

2012

Ken Burns, Sarah Burns ...

Documentary

7.0

319

Documentary A documentary that examines the 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. After having spent between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime.

	Author	Review
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"It is an emotionally stirring, at times crushingly depressing cinematic call to witness. It’s also frustrating because (...) it fails to add anything substantively new."	NEU
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"The film tells a shocking story in eloquent, even-handed and affecting terms (...) As a dense procedural, this is fascinating stuff"	POS
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"It never expands its scope or meaning over the course of its two-hour running time. But the specifics make the story powerful regardless."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"With an editing approach that seamlessly blends past and present, 'Central Park Five' contains a fluid, engaging storytelling"	POS
United States	Joseph Jon Lanthier Slant	"While the film’s lack of interest in its subjects’ individuality is hardly a damnable offense, it renders whatever material here isn’t redundant humanistically anemic (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU

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