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Sheriff
  • Release Date: Mar 9, 2005
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60 out of 100

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  • Summary: At once brutal, bizarre and funny, Sheriff is a feature-length documentary movie that employs the pure cinema verite technique of Frederick Wiseman: no interviews, no music, no voice-overs. The result is an unexpected, intimate portrait of a complex man trying to do good in a bad, bad world. (Go Pictures)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Cliff Doerksen
    80
    The detail captured by Kraus's scrupulously neutral camera adds up to a fascinating, fully realized portrait of the man and the job.
  2. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Merle Bertrand
    60
    A stripped-down, small town "COPS" without the flashy editing and hip-hop soundtrack.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    There's no downside to a reminder that not every beefy, God-talking sheriff is a bigoted cracker, and Kraus' short, no-frills documentary is a model of fly-on-the-wall filmmaking.

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