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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Roco Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Roco Films
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary Detroit's story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century - the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now... the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos. ...

Directed By: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Roco Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Roco Films
  • 1 h 30 m

Detropia

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
68
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 8 User Ratings
8.3
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Summary Detroit's story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century - the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now... the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos. ...

Directed By: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
68
67% Positive
12 Reviews
33% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
68
67% Positive
12 Reviews
33% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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88
Sep 21, 2012
The oddly beautiful documentary made by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Gray is subtler and richer than its blunt title suggests.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 6, 2012
What the movie captures overall looks like a scene from a sci-fi, postapocalyptic nightmare.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 8 User Ratings
8.3
88% Positive
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13% Mixed
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13% Mixed
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75
Sep 19, 2012
Detropia offers no solution to this crisis, and indeed there may be none. This documentary is more eulogy and elegy.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 6, 2012
Despite its emotional coldness, the film still manages to end on a note of something like hope.
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63
Sep 19, 2012
The title is an imagined word to describe a hard-to-imagine (but very real) place. Combine "Detroit" and "dystopia" (the opposite of utopia) and Detropia is what you get.
By Mark Feeney FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 4, 2012
Among several recent documentaries about Detroit, the elegiac Detropia is perhaps the most aesthetically pleasing, if not the most informative or insightful.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
40
Nov 30, 2012
One only wishes that Ewing and Grady had chosen to dig deeper as they explored it.
By Mike Scott FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Loki Films
Release Date Sep 7, 2012
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.facebook.com/DETROPIATHEFILM
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Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Boston Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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