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The Sentence

Name: The Sentence
Genre: Crime, Documentary
Released: October 12, 2018
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 69

2018

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The Sentence

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HBO Films | Release Date: October 12, 2018 | TV-PG

Summary: Cindy Shank, mother of three, is serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison for her tangential involvement with a Michigan drug ring years earlier. This intimate portrait of mandatory minimum drug sentencing's devastating consequences, captured by Cindy's brother, follows her and her family over the course of ten years.

Director: Rudy Valdez

Genre(s): Crime, Documentary

Rating: TV-PG

Runtime: 85 min

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The Film Stage John Fink

Jun 6, 2018

The Sentence is a powerful film full of rich, raw emotions as all parties explore their vulnerabilities. Read full review

Alan Scherstuhl

Oct 12, 2018

Here’s a true surprise in 2018: a documentary about an American injustice that will likely leave you, by its end, blubbering tears of relieved joy. Read full review

Chris Barsanti

Oct 11, 2018

This is a riveting, important story in which the personal can’t help but be political. Read full review

Dan Fienberg

The Sentence is so committed to its concentration on emotion and heart that it's difficult not to get carried away, and it feels almost churlish to quibble with the intellectual responses it barely aspires to. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Oct 12, 2018

It's an emotionally exhausting film — but a little bit of perspective might have resulted in an even more politically urgent document. As it is, though, The Sentence is the beginning of a conversation that needs to continue. Read full review

Ken Jaworowski

Oct 11, 2018

By making you feel deeply for his sister and her children, Valdez has fashioned his film to make the lapses less glaring. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Oct 9, 2018

Rudy Valdez has no distance from the material, which works simultaneously in the film's favor and, largely, its disfavor. Read full review

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