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  • 2005
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2005
  • 1 h 16 m

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)

Directed By: Daniel Kraus

  • 2005
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2005
  • 1 h 16 m

Sheriff

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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)

Directed By: Daniel Kraus

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The detail captured by Kraus's scrupulously neutral camera adds up to a fascinating, fully realized portrait of the man and the job.
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But without taking anything away from Frederick Wiseman, who remains a master, Sheriff is almost as good any documentary he's made.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
63
An admirably realistic portrait of police life.
By Russell Scott Smith FULL REVIEW
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.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
60
Sheriff may have a point to make about the impact of family, roots and religion on the changing face of rural America, but the film, while admirably restrained and competently made, is too polite to clarify that.
By Anita Gates FULL REVIEW
50
Some of the material is dramatic, other bits are dull.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
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There's so little meat to his likable subject that the endeavor proves less "Cops" and more "The Andy Griffith Show."
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Production Company Go Pictures
Release Date Mar 9, 2005
Duration 1 h 16 m
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Website http://www.SheriffMovie.com/
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