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Hale County This Morning, This Evening

2018

Documentary

6.5

Documentary An exploration of coming-of-age in the Black Belt of the American South, using stereotypical imagery to fill in the landscape between iconic representations of black men and encouraging a new way of looking, while resistance to narrative suspends conclusive imagining – allowing the viewer to complete the film.

	Author	Review
United States	Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter	"A poignant, pointed nonfiction (...) Even when Ross loses the elegiac thread, there are scenes of tremendous power"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A documentary of radiant images poised between desperation and joy (...) Once you let yourself glide onto its wavelength, it’s got a cosmically becalmed addictive quality"	POS
United States	Bilge Ebiri Village Voice	"By sticking to his impressionistic perspective, by fracturing his narrative, Ross achieves something genuinely poetic — a film whose very lightness is the key to its depth."	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"The particularity and power of the larger cinematic image he [Ross] has created through a multiplicity of moments are impossible to adequately describe in critical prose.	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"A mosaic of Southern life that feels quietly revelatory. It's a hell of an achievement."	POS
United States	Andrew Crump The Playlist	"You haven’t seen anything quite like 'Hale County This Morning, This Evening' before (...) Accessible and engrossing"	POS
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"For all its undercurrents of poetic rumination, 'Hale County' feels under-articulated"	NEU
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Though made modestly and intimately, the film embodies a vast conceptual and aesthetic ambition."	POS
United States	Odie Henderson rogerebert.com	"Its immersive lyricism demands the full brunt of our attention (...) As a documentary, it’s informative, emotional and intriguing (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It feels as if Ross has created a sustained kind of euphoria, a 76-minute epiphany of love for his community (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Chris O'Falt IndieWire	"The most significant piece of nonfiction filmmaking this year"	POS
United Kingdom	Ed Potton The Times	"Sometimes the film is too sleepy for its own good, and too convinced of its profundity (...) Yet there’s also a dry wit (...) There are moments of genuine lyricism too (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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