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Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory: Season 1
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 12, 2012
  • Season #: 1
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  • Summary: This is the third documentary from Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the West Memphis Three. Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were convicted of killing three children in 1993. After several appeals, the three men were released in August 2011 after entering an Alford plea.
  • Genre(s): News/Documentary

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Cynthia Fuchs
    Jan 12, 2012
    80
    The hallmark of all three films has been their understanding and embrace of subjects' self-presentations./
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Jan 12, 2012
    80
    Paradise Lost 3 is perhaps the most interesting and well-made film of the trilogy
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Jan 12, 2012
    60
    The new film, despite the astounding story it tells, is the most conventional, least urgent and, cinematically, the least interesting of the three.

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