Detroit
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Amidst the chaos of the Detroit Rebellion, with the city under curfew and as the Michigan National Guard patrolled the streets, three young African American men were murdered at the Algiers Motel.
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- Jul 29, 2017
I'm from Detroit. I've lived in and around the city for the majority of my life. This movie has nothing to say about this city, the uprising of '67 or, most damningly, what it's like to be black in America. Detroit (the movie) is the cinematic equivalent of Ramsay Bolton…
kmarusAug 4, 2017did not anticipate this being the liberal version of the michael bay benghazi movie but here we are
Josh LewisJul 28, 2017It’s easy to try to do too much with a historical film. As a filmmaker, you might feel the need to cast a wide net over the events in question, going down a laundry list of important dates in an effort to do due diligence to history. I prefer the approach taken by Detroit,…
Kevin Y - Aug 3, 2017
65 Senseless provocation, although more in the idea surrounding such brutality; not whether we should show these images, but questioning what they truly provide for audiences. The nation is long past utilizing re-creation for the sake of sensation. Nothing contained…
SilentDawnJul 23, 2017Exploding across the stressed out summer of 2017 like a powder keg thrown into a room that’s already on fire, Kathryn Bigelow’s hectic but harrowing docudrama account of the 1967 Detroit riots is inevitably as concerned with the persistence of systemic racism as it is with…
davidehrlichAug 2, 2017Ooof... Look, I'm really not the person to talk about the major issues of this film, so I'll keep this brief (you can read what some smarter people wrote about it here, here, and here). Kathryn Bigelow is still a technically exceptional filmmaker who can make a damn…
Brian - Jan 1, 2018
Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit works best when the focus is on the events at the Algiers Motel. In these scenes, Detroit becomes a horror movie, a home invasion thriller and survive the night story of pure Manson Family-esque holy terror. Will Poulter wins the Creep of 2017…
Todd GainesJul 26, 2017Strange days
matt lynchJul 21, 2022Action! - Female 4 Front: The Bigelow's Kinetic Alphas And our journey and marathon conclude with a film I've been wanting to watch lately. A film with, to put it mildly, mixed reviews. When it was first released, many people were critical of it, while others loved it.…
Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine
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- Jacob Hall likedDetroit
Really tough watch. Will Poulter is extremely menacing as a corrupt cop. Insane that this is possibly what happened that night. I just don't understand why Kathryn Bigelow was director. I feel like this could have been done by Spike Lee, John Singleton, or any black director
Elijah lovedDetroitI really liked how they presented the Detroit riots and I learned about the whole house incident soo guess I learned something from this
Jonathan Arroyo lovedDetroitIncredibly sad and maddening. Such a shame these kinds of things happened. America truly has never been great. Amazing cast.
- Mickerdoo likedDetroit
Another one of those shameful home turf stories of racism that needs to be told so we don’t repeat history. Well casted.
Ben Rothschild dislikedDetroitJust bad didn't show anything of the riots just police brutality inside one motel
Asher Gammage lovedDetroitAmazing, but very hard and sobering.
- Shaggy Rogers likedDetroit
Super stressful watch but good
Superbad likedDetroitMade me furious
Doug Snyder likedDetroitHurt my heart
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- TCTevin Comeaux
It's really a great movie and the acting is phenomenal. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this movie.
SMSilvia MartinezOnce they killed the little girl I was done watching it.
JJJustin JoffreysThis is the most important film of the year.
- DCD'Juan Cuttinwell
I wonder how many other cities had major riots.
WGWen GuThe story seemed to have little purpose. The high suspense scenes were well shot, but it didn't seem to give any more insight to police and race relations than what is already out there.
AFAntonio FloydWhy was the movie filmed in Boston when it is talking about Detroit. I'm from the city of Detroit and this was not a good look.
- KLKen Lutz
There are few films that get my blood boiling due to the injustice of society but this film probably ranks at the top of the pile.
TRTyrone Reese IIGreat movie.. great production.. great acting.. I felt as if I was in the movie.. if you don't like this movie then do some self examinations
JNJack Nguyennever again
Metacritic
Aug 3, 2017
It’s an overwhelming horror movie—maybe a little too overwhelming.
Will Leitch
Paste Magazine
Jul 26, 2017
It comes across as incomplete, its metaphors, bit characters, traumas, and tacked-on subplots never threading together into a larger canvas—a “big picture” movie where only the most tightly cornered, claustrophobic moments seem finished.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
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