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David Germain, Associated Press: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Terrific acting, great music, a painterly eye for detail, fine period trappings that bring the mid-1970s to life... Yet the story of former Black Panthers getting on with their lives after the civil-rights movement is predictable and overly simple..." (Read the full review...) 485 words, 12/02/10 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: EXCELLENT (cg) "...an intellectually ambitious debut drama... notable for setting well-drawn fictional characters in a fraught, real moment in civil rights history." (Read the full review...) 71 words, 11/26/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: VERY GOOD (cg) "First-time film director Tanya Hamilton manifests her vision of what politics can do to individual thinking with subtlety and sophistication. Remember her name. She's a genuine find." (Read the full review...) 228 words, 12/02/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "...leads to no showy conclusion, no spectacular climax. It is about movement possible within the soul even in difficult times." (Read the full review...) 499 words, 12/09/10
A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "Tanya Hamilton tells a modest, complex story with admirable clarity and nuance. That her film is so quiet, so evidently invested in contemplation rather than confrontation, gives it power as well as insight." (Read the full review...) 782 words, 12/03/10 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Hamilton and her cast treat the material with respectful intelligence. But since the primary events occurred before the movie even begins, 'Night' never quite coalesces into the forceful drama it hopes to be." (Read the full review...) 131 words, 12/03/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...manages to be both pertinent and dramatically persuasive.... demonstrates that social relevance and emotional connection can be compelling fellow travelers." (Read the full review...) 676 words, 12/10/10 Kyle Smith, New York Post: WEAK (cg) "...raises tangled questions about whether it is better to live humiliated or arm yourself, yet for the most part it's dramatically inert, talky and directionless, and it ends quietly without saying much of anything." (Read the full review...) 204 words, 12/03/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...its rhythm forces audiences to pay attention to what its superb actors express non-verbally, and to measure the weight of the characters' past lives. In other words it is not a commercial picture." (Read the full review...) 340 words, 12/10/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...leads to no showy conclusion, no spectacular climax. It is about movement possible within the soul even in difficult times." (Read the full review...) 499 words, 12/09/10 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...the rare recent American-independent film that goes beyond the private dramas of its protagonists, imagining them as players in broader historical moments..." (Read the full review...) 647 words, 12/01/10
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...there isn't much here to make anyone overly excited. But for a movie so rooted in fury and violence, that almost feels like an impressive feat." (Read the full review...) 396 words, 12/17/10 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an urban western set to the plaintive soul score of The Roots.... takes viewers beneath the film's handsome surfaces, ferreting out the secrets of the past by peeling back that wallpaper and other cover-ups of past violence." (Read the full review...) 364 words, 10/22/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an utterly engrossing and promising first film from a director with a unique vision and a point of view." (Read the full review...) 450 words, 01/28/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: POOR (cg) "...suffers from some of the deficiencies common to first features. It is sincere and earnest but the product of an assumption that the milieu itself is compelling enough to command an audience's attention." (Read the full review...) 332 words, 12/10/10
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...the rare recent American-independent film that goes beyond the private dramas of its protagonists, imagining them as players in broader historical moments..." (Read the full review...) 647 words, 12/01/10 Sam Adams, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the wounds of the past are just beneath the surface, as close as the bullet holes under her kitchen wallpaper." (Read the full review...) 365 words, 12/02/10 Nick Schager, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "...patient, slightly elliptical... resonates deeply as a portrait of idealistic beliefs co-opted and mutated, as well as the wrong lessons passed down by said transformation..." (Read the full review...) 463 words, 03/18/10
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: FAIR "Any film with Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington demands attention.... the impact of its splendid cast is blunted by the awkward structure of its screenplay.... flashbacks dominate the film in a semicoherent way..." (Read the full review...) 272 words, 12/03/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "Tanya Hamilton tells a modest, complex story with admirable clarity and nuance. That her film is so quiet, so evidently invested in contemplation rather than confrontation, gives it power as well as insight." (Read the full review...) 782 words, 12/03/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...manages to be both pertinent and dramatically persuasive.... demonstrates that social relevance and emotional connection can be compelling fellow travelers." (Read the full review...) 676 words, 12/10/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: VERY GOOD "Director Tanya Hamilton will no doubt make more polished movies... All I know is that from the first moments of her haunting and soulful elegy to a bygone urban America, I would have followed her anywhere." (Read the full review...) 967 words, 12/02/10
John Anderson, Daily Variety: FAIR "Acting, particularly by Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington, is first-rate, but the story is as ramshackle as a South Philly tenement, with an equal number of structural violations." (Read the full review...) 443 words, 01/26/10 James Greenberg, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "Driven by Anthony Mackie's powerful performance and a thumping soundtrack... Writer/director Tanya Hamilton does fine once she has her story up and running..." (Read the full review...) 599 words, 01/25/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...manages to be both pertinent and dramatically persuasive.... demonstrates that social relevance and emotional connection can be compelling fellow travelers." (Read the full review...) 676 words, 12/10/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "Tanya Hamilton tells a modest, complex story with admirable clarity and nuance. That her film is so quiet, so evidently invested in contemplation rather than confrontation, gives it power as well as insight." (Read the full review...) 782 words, 12/03/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: FAIR "Any film with Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington demands attention.... the impact of its splendid cast is blunted by the awkward structure of its screenplay.... flashbacks dominate the film in a semicoherent way..." (Read the full review...) 272 words, 12/03/10
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