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American Skin

2019

Nate Parker, Omari Hardwick, Beau Knapp, Theo Rossi ...

Drama A Marine veteran working as a school janitor tries to mend his relationship with his son after a divorce. When his son is killed by a police officer found innocent without standing trial, he takes matters into his own hands.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Whether or not the movie marks [Parker's] comeback, it deserves to be seen (...) It’s a good movie: tense, bold, angry, empathetic, provocative, observant, morally engaged."	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"To be fair, while Parker's film lacks finesse and the writing too readily slides into bullet-point didacticism and self-righteous speechifying, it does go to some lengths to give both sides a voice"	NEU
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"A clunky, heavy-handed film that takes a pressing contemporary issue and flattens it under two genres the writer-director seems ill-equipped to handle — the mockumentary and the courtroom drama.	NEG
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"The thing itself is so clotted, so strident and so thickly cloaked in self-pity that its impassioned story risks becoming worryingly self-serving (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"The debate over Nate Parker’s value as a filmmaker has just been settled once and for all: He doesn’t have any"	NEG
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"The most charitable thing that can be said about it is that if Parker is attempting to simulate the work of a bad or inexperienced filmmaker, he succeeds beyond his wildest dreams"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Infuriatingly manipulative and insufferably preachy"	NEG

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