Click here to copy URL

Silver Dollar Road

2023

Documentary

Documentary A Black family in North Carolina has been harassed for decades by land developers attempting to take their waterfront property.

	Media	Author	Review
		Lovia Gyarkye The Hollywood Reporter	"These moments make 'Silver Dollar Road' as much evidence of the systemic challenges faced by Black people in the United States as it is a tenderly observed portrait of a family fighting to survive"
		Robert Daniels rogerebert.com	"[It] is stunning not just in subject matter, but because it has director Raoul Peck veering from his usual style (...) it offers a different, conventional approach to a fuzzy story that, to an outsider, might appear up for debate (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Susannah Gruder IndieWire	"The Reels’ story, complete with these ebullient moments, deserves to be told. But it warrants so much more attention to detail, so that we can understand exactly what’s at stake, and how to keep it from happening again"
		Adrian Horton The Guardian	"Another Raoul Peck documentary triumph (...) it effectively connects one family’s story with the larger scourge of legal Black land theft (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Lisa Kennedy Variety	"The story of the Reels and 'Silver Dollar Road' offers the rural version of gentrification, in which families of modest means are priced out of their longtime homes and communities by unfettered, opportunistic development"
		Brian Farvour The Playlist	"It is ultimately a drag"
		Steve Pond The Wrap	"Raoul Peck gives racial injustice a face and heart in latest doc"
		Soham Gadre The Film Stage	"An intimate family portrait that extrapolates America’s history of discrimination"
		Wendy Ide The Guardian	"Enraging, uplifting documentary on a Black family’s legal battle (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"We see Licurtis step away from a boisterous Memorial Day party to be alone with his emotions, with the sad weight of what he’s been through. 'Silver Dollar Road', with its mix of rich and troublesome legacies, has that power too"

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.