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Strong Island

2017

Yance Ford

Documentary

5.5

285

Documentary Examining the violent death of the filmmaker's brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary interrogates murderous fear and racialized perception, and re-imagines the wreckage in catastrophe's wake, challenging us to change.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"The film is both absorbing and thought-provoking — it's artfully shot, with framing that alternately suggests subjectivity and irrefutable truth"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Yance Ford has made a haunting cinematic memoir, but as an exploration of his brother's 1992 murder it's more meditation than investigation."	NEU
United Kingdom	Charlie Phillips The Guardian	"Yance Ford’s extraordinary documentary on the murder of his brother is part journalistic examination, part devastating essay on grief for one black US family (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Yance Ford's exploration of the grief following his brother's death is a fascinating meditation on race in America."	POS
United Kingdom	David D'Arcy Screendaily	"A relentless documentary (...) [it] is not 'The Thin Blue Line' (...) although its stylised look can evoke Morris."	POS
United States	Dan Callahan The Wrap	"[A] outstanding and sensitive debut (...[it] takes the worst that life might do to us and transforms it into about as poetic and unsparing a statement as can be made with the documentary form."	POS

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