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LA 92

2017

Dan Lindsay, TJ Martin

Documentary

7.4

464

Documentary Few images are seared into the American consciousness like the beating of Rodney King at the hands of four white Los Angeles police officers and the riots after the officers’ acquittal in the spring of 1992. The unrest, sparked by a verdict many viewed as yet another example of judicial indifference to law enforcement’s harassment of Los Angeles’s African American population, lasted for six days. The widespread looting, arson, and ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Gwilym Mumford The Guardian	"This documentary is potent and fitting, but prioritises sensationalism over insight (...) Arresting, certainly, but also something of a missed opportunity (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Sonia Saraiya Variety	"[It] is constructed entirely of archival footage, edited together with rigorous precision (...) It’s a remarkable commentary on overlapping media, and an immersive history of the moment."
		Dave Calhoun Time Out	"You’d have to look elsewhere (...) for deeper insight and context, but this is a valuable companion piece to other accounts and a vivid collage of in-the-moment imagery (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"'LA 92' intentionally avoids interviews and constructs a narrative entirely through immersion in archival footage."
		Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice	"A wearying and dispiriting film (...) [It] mostly offers raw footage and shrill media accounts of people shoving, shouting, looting, bleeding, with little sense of what built to this."
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Gripping and depressingly timely (...) A potent remembrance of the Los Angeles Riots 25 years later."

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