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  • Summary: Tim Tyson's novel about the murder of a black Vietnam veteran by a white businessman during the 70's is adapted to the big screen.
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 16
  2. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. 75
    The movie tells this story in a traditional, straightforward way. No fancy footwork. No chewing the scenery. Meat and potatoes, you could say, but it's thoughtful and moving.
  2. Though it can't quite transcend its filmmaker's earnest intentions, this solemn history lesson offers several powerful moments.
  3. Suffers from an awkward, plodding structure that robs it of much of its dramatic effect.
  4. 25
    Rolls out stiff clichés to tell a familiar story of racial injustice in the South.

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