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Twilight: Los Angeles
Metascore
62 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    75
    Forces the audience to rethink the riots in new and difficult ways, to find empathy and revulsion where it might not have known they existed.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    70
    Part documentary, part one-woman quick-change show and part sociological investigation, this is enthralling theater with a purpose.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    70
    Smith's work is a means of cauterizing wounds that have not even begun to heal...certainly not across a continent in Giuliani's New York.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    63
    When it was first performed in theaters a couple of years after the L.A. riots took place, Twilight: Los Angeles must have been very powerful. Unfortunately, director Mark Levin's filmed version lacks that impact.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    60
    The resulting compromise does not produce a perfect film, but it is a fine record of a classic production and an important reminder of an event that has not stopped echoing in American culture.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    50
    The camera's closer scrutiny doesn't flatter this unique theatrical reportage.
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