After Tiller
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  • Summary: After Tiller explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha Shane and Lana Wilson have created a moving and unique exploration of one of the most incendiary topics of our time, and they’ve done so in an informative, thought-provoking, and compassionate way. [Oscilloscope Pictures]… Expand

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  1. Positive: 14 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. The Playlist
    Reviewed by: Katie Walsh
    Jul 25, 2013
    100
    After Tiller is not an important film just because of its political and cultural relevance, but because of its humane and compassionate approach to telling the stories of these doctors, their work and the women that they seek to help.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Alissa Simon
    Jul 25, 2013
    90
    Well contextualized and sensitively shot with extraordinary access, the pic reflects the personal, moral and ethical struggles of the doctors as well as their patients.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    Oct 3, 2013
    90
    Filmmakers Martha Shane and Lana Wilson, whose profiles in courage are sympathetic but not adulatory, have crafted an absorbing, thoughtful report.
  4. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Andrew Schenker
    Sep 14, 2013
    75
    It gives a true sense of how the forces of a hypocritically religious country has burdened countless young women with a lifetime of misplaced guilt.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Sara Stewart
    Sep 30, 2013
    75
    After Tiller is groundbreaking in giving voice not only to the doctors, but to those who always seem to get overlooked in the high-volume political debate about this topic: the women themselves.
  6. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Kimberley Jones
    Oct 9, 2013
    67
    The issue of late-term abortions tends to inspire polemics from both sides of the debate; Shane and Wilson’s approach – sensitive, measured, workmanlike – is a welcome one.
  7. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Mike D'Angelo
    Sep 18, 2013
    58
    After Tiller is an hour and a half of folks on their best behavior, presented as a candid portrait.

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