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Detroit

2017

Kathryn Bigelow

John Boyega, Algee Smith, Will Poulter, Jack Reynor ...

6.9

11,214

Drama A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest RACE riots in United States history. The story is developed around the Algiers Motel incident, which occurred in Detroit, Michigan on July 25, 1967, during the racially charged 12th Street Riot. It involves the death of three black men and the brutal beatings of nine other people: seven black men and two white women.

	Author	Review
United States	Jordan Hoffman New York Daily News	"A harrowing return to 1967 (...) It is extraordinary. Will Poulter is outstanding (...) Anthony Mackie is captivating (...) This is far from ancient history (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"It's a hardcore masterpiece that digs into our violent past (...) [Bigelow] smacks us down in the middle of a brutal historical event so we can see it – and feel it – for ourselves (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"'Detroit' is a movie that will make you angry. It is designed to make you angry, and it does nothing to soften the blow or create some artificial uplift. (...) 'Detroit' is tough, but it’s worth it, every minute of it."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Tense and powerful, but one-dimensional (...) [It] remains short on complexity, as if it were enough simply to provoke and outrage the audience."	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[Bigelow] has created a turbulent, live-wire panorama of race in America that feels like it’s all unfolding in the moment, and that’s its power."	POS
United States	Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"A horrifying tale of violence poses many urgent questions (...) It’s an effective, agonizingly hard-to-watch docudrama, one that benefits from Bigelow’s skill for telling complex stories with propulsive clarity."	POS
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"A brutal, visceral lesson in American history (...) A sincere effort to illuminate a singularly dark chapter in history"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"'Detroit' is extremely powerful when its wandering eye is trained on the moment at hand, when it’s performing a bracingly direct meditation on white violence and black fear."	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"An artfully frazzled mosaic of suffering (...) At its best the movie (...) evokes a spirit of mournful provocation"	POS
United States	Adam Graham Detroit News	"'Detroit' is claustrophobic. It’s hot. It sweats. It’s an intense, gritty, explosive recreation of a grim moment in one of our city’s worst chapters (...) [It] is most effective as a mood piece"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Dynamically shot by cinematographer Barry Ackroyd (...) It has relevance and passion (...) Bigelow creates a humanity amid the anguish (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Simon Crook Empire	"Unflinching, unmissable and terrifyingly pertinent. (...) Score: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"This gritty, gripping movie starts slowly but builds in intensity, culminating in sorrow and raw nerves (...) Poulter startlingly portrays pure, bigoted evil"	POS

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