Detroit

Name: Detroit
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, Crime
Released: July 28, 2017
Duration: 143 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Algee Smith, Anthony Mackie, Ben O'Toole, Hannah Murray, Jack Reynor

2017

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Detroit

Movie Details & Credits

Annapurna Pictures | Release Date: July 28, 2017

Starring: Algee Smith, Anthony Mackie, Ben O'Toole, Hannah Murray, Jack Reynor, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, John Boyega, Kaitlyn Dever, Will Poulter

Summary: Detroit tells the gripping story of one of the darkest moments during the civil unrest that rocked Detroit in the summer of '67.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Genre(s): Drama, History, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 143 min

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81	#81 Most Discussed Movie of 2017
68	#68 Most Shared Movie of 2017

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Washington Post - Ann Hornaday

Jul 28, 2017

Detroit is an audacious, nervy work of art, but it also commemorates history, memorializes the dead and invites reflection on the part of the living. In scale, scope and the space it offers for a long-awaited moral reckoning, it’s nothing less than monumental. Read full review

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Variety - Owen Gleiberman

Jul 23, 2017

Bigelow, working from a script by her regular collaborator Mark Boal (it’s their first film since “Zero Dark Thirty”), has created a turbulent, live-wire panorama of race in America that feels like it’s all unfolding in the moment, and that’s its power. We’re not watching tidy, well-meaning lessons — we’re watching people driven, by an impossible situation, to act out who they really are. Read full review

St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Calvin Wilson

Aug 3, 2017

The film is hard to watch, but its timeliness is impossible to ignore. Still, a case could be made that Bigelow dwells on the violence a bit too obsessively. Read full review

Tampa Bay Times - Steve Persall

Aug 3, 2017

We are "there" although Detroit squanders that sensation on revulsion, a gut punch needing to take more shots at our heads. Read full review

Village Voice - Bilge Ebiri

Aug 1, 2017

Bigelow has crafted a portrait of the 1967 Detroit uprising that manages to be both history lesson and incendiary device, even if it sometimes sputters. Read full review

Christian Science Monitor - Peter Rainer

Aug 4, 2017

If the film had focused on more than the Algiers Motel incident, if, as it starts out to do, it had attempted to convey a comprehensive and incendiary portrait of a city in crisis, it would have rendered far more justice to those times – and our own. Read full review

The Atlantic - Christopher Orr

Jan 9, 2018

What begins as a shocking portrait of police misconduct gradually becomes a test of audience endurance. Read full review

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xepherys

Aug 2, 2017

A very deep and moving film about the Detroit riots. Definitely an eye-opener regarding race relations in the city even to present day, and some background about why many in the city don't trust the police force. Powerful and well worth two and a half hours.

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bfoore90

Feb 28, 2018

A very intense, raw and real look at police brutality and an event that was shaped by it. Its a story that needed to be told, most would write it off as liberal or left wing propaganda but it doesn't demonize police or white people in the way some would say it does. In my perspective, IA very intense, raw and real look at police brutality and an event that was shaped by it. Its a story that needed to be told, most would write it off as liberal or left wing propaganda but it doesn't demonize police or white people in the way some would say it does. In my perspective, I found it to be aimed more toward the Justice System in America and how it could be used to let evil people get away with crimes that good people are caught in as well on both sides. It's a insanely good movie and one that I recommend to anyone… Expand

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BrianMcCritic

Jan 14, 2018

This film is brutal and by the end you feel emotionally drained. Kathryn Bigelow has crafted a film that will break you and make you so angry that it's hard to deal with such an injustice. A

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imthenoob

Feb 20, 2018

The sub-plots were a little much and that weird animated opening was very out of place for a film based on such serious events. Regardless, This is still a very good movie. The cast did a great job and I felt that Will Poulter gave the performance of his career, which is already veryThe sub-plots were a little much and that weird animated opening was very out of place for a film based on such serious events. Regardless, This is still a very good movie. The cast did a great job and I felt that Will Poulter gave the performance of his career, which is already very promising, with this film and he definitely made the movie IMO.

Is it a little preachy at times? Yes but I think they did a good enough job show both sides of the riots and in a realistic enough way to be a brutal reminder that history is doomed to repeat itself if we allow it to.… Expand

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tropicAces

Aug 16, 2017

One for 2017's best films. Don't listen to the alt-right crying about "white guilt" or the SJWs saying a white woman has no right to tell this story. If this was about 15 minutes shorter it would've really be something special, but as it stands it is a powerfully acted adult drama.

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DovahK

Jul 2, 2018

Detroit narra sólo más o menos bien la represión racista de la época, aunque es muy general y no profundiza en lo realmente importante, aun así es entretenida y curiosa de ver.

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Ajvanho

Jun 11, 2019

Only good thing about the movie is that it's good looking, but that probably has more to do with modern technology.

The rest is just boring even tho there's stuff going on. I don't even mind that facts have been dropped in favor of making more drama, but then when you dig around and see howOnly good thing about the movie is that it's good looking, but that probably has more to do with modern technology.

The rest is just boring even tho there's stuff going on. I don't even mind that facts have been dropped in favor of making more drama, but then when you dig around and see how it's trying to be portrayed in interviews, it becomes obvious why and how they made this movie. And that really is a shame, since the Detroit Riots were arguably one of the most interesting events in American history.

In the future lets leave film making to filmmakers.… Expand

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