Metacritic Film

Jaundiced Eye, The

MPAA RATING: Not rated

SomFord Entertainment
Documentary
90 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters September 17, 1999

A documentary highlighting the injustice of a false accusation of sexual abuse made by a Michigan boy against his father and grandfather which resulted in a swift conviction based on no evidence other than the boy's questionable testimony.

DIRECTED BY
Nonny de la Peña

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

75 / 100

Critic Reviews

100 San Francisco Chronicle
A terrific documentary.
80 Los Angeles Times
As compelling as it is illuminating.
80 The New York Times
A passionate, angry piece of advocacy, but it is equally, and in consequence, a brave and necessary act of truth-telling.
75 San Francisco Examiner
The finest element in de la Pena's carefully assembled account is how she doesn't simply state the obvious, but lets the meaty facts speak for themselves.
75 New York Daily News
Both frustrating and instructive.
70 TV Guide
Fascinating on a number of levels, and deeply disturbing through and through.
50 Chicago Reader
The force of the social criticism is diminished by contrivance and the inclusion of peripheral material.

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