Time

Name: Time
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 9, 2020
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 91
Cast: Fox Rich

2020

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Amazon Studios | Release Date: October 9, 2020 | PG-13

Starring: Fox Rich

Summary: Fox Rich is a fighter. The entrepreneur, abolitionist and mother of six boys has spent the last two decades campaigning for the release of her husband, Rob G. Rich, who is serving a 60-year sentence for a robbery they both committed in the early 90s in a moment of desperation. Combining the video diaries Fox has recorded for Rob over theFox Rich is a fighter. The entrepreneur, abolitionist and mother of six boys has spent the last two decades campaigning for the release of her husband, Rob G. Rich, who is serving a 60-year sentence for a robbery they both committed in the early 90s in a moment of desperation. Combining the video diaries Fox has recorded for Rob over the years with intimate glimpses of her present-day life, director Garrett Bradley paints a mesmerizing portrait of the resilience and radical love necessary to prevail over the endless separations of the country’s prison-industrial complex.… Expand

Director: Garrett Bradley

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 81 min

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Justin Chang

Oct 8, 2020

Time can make you weep for a hundred reasons, from joy, pain or recognition, but its wounds and its glories are finally inextricable from one of the paradoxes of moviemaking itself. Cinema can magically compress decades into hours and transform lives into narratives, but what it erects here is ultimately a monument to something irretrievable. Cherish every moment of this movie, because each one stands in for all the others that have been lost. Read full review

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Cary Darling

Oct 13, 2020

Exquisite and moving documentary. Read full review

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Sarah Tai-Black

Oct 15, 2020

It’s a document of mutual care; a self-authored family archive magnified by the scope of its editor and platform; and a compassionately rendered adaptation of the ways in which we feel the tempo, intervals, duration and memory of time. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Oct 8, 2020

Time is an extraordinary documentary from director and artist Garrett Bradley, who didn’t make a film about Rich and her family so much as make one with them. Read full review

Pat Brown

Sep 12, 2020

It reminds us in eminently cinematic ways that behind the numbers and procedures of a court case are actual lives existing in actual, human time. Read full review

A.A. Dowd

Oct 9, 2020

Bradley, who’s worked mainly in narrative cinema, lends a sharp eye for composition and a poet’s sensibility. This is a beautifully shot film that’s as interested in studying the changing faces of its subjects as laying out their struggle from end to end. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Oct 7, 2020

Bradley’s film is a lyrical documentary, a piece that feels like a poem or a prayer, an almost meditative experience, set to a plaintive piano score. Read full review

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j1train

Apr 13, 2021

Racists tanking the score of a beautiful Black story yet again. It’s a simple, heartbreaking, inspiring portrait of an American family. Watch it.

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Dazer

Dec 5, 2020

This movie moved me to write my first review here. It wasn't perfect, yet I still felt compelled to give it 10 stars as it is so unique and special. It moved me to tears for the first time in ages. The final product, despite some minor flaws, is so powerful. Ignore the holy than thouThis movie moved me to write my first review here. It wasn't perfect, yet I still felt compelled to give it 10 stars as it is so unique and special. It moved me to tears for the first time in ages. The final product, despite some minor flaws, is so powerful. Ignore the holy than thou negative reviews. They are from moralistic people who have no heart for human suffering and/or for people of color.… Expand

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katezoe

Jan 25, 2021

The Oscar front runner Best Documentary of 2020, winner of many critics association and without doubt a heartbreaking and joyous documentary! Again, we see the ugly face and truth of American racism. All these "0" reviews....

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Brent_Marchant

Mar 31, 2021

Is it a statement about the cruelty and indignities of the prison system? A love story of spouses separated by a jail sentence? A family's struggle for survival with an absent father? Well, it's some of all of these things, but the finished product fails to come together coherently into aIs it a statement about the cruelty and indignities of the prison system? A love story of spouses separated by a jail sentence? A family's struggle for survival with an absent father? Well, it's some of all of these things, but the finished product fails to come together coherently into a cohesive whole. It's pointed, outspoken criticism is limited to a few noteworthy passionate outbursts, one of the picture's genuine strengths. It's up-close portrait of a family burdened is well-intentioned but weighed down by an excess of archival home movies and a jumbled mix of contemporary footage presented with little explanation, back story or context. And, in between, the sequences are linked by segments consisting of beautiful but pointless art house cinematography and long, lingering emotive shots, neither of which adds much other than presenting images that are pleasing to the eye. Director Garrett Bradley's latest has garnered considerable praise, as well as an Oscar nomination for best documentary feature, but, unfortunately, whatever the driving intention is here, it doesn't come through as clearly as it might have. Better editing and a sharper focus would have helped immensely, taking what assets the film does have and making them resonate more viscerally with the viewing audience.… Expand

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TVJerry

Oct 13, 2020

In the early 90s, Fox Rich and her husband robbed a credit union. She got out of jail after a few years, while he was sentenced for 60 years. This documentary is primarily a profile of Fox and her resilience, determination and love while raising 6 sons and struggling for her husband’sIn the early 90s, Fox Rich and her husband robbed a credit union. She got out of jail after a few years, while he was sentenced for 60 years. This documentary is primarily a profile of Fox and her resilience, determination and love while raising 6 sons and struggling for her husband’s release. With the exception of her sons, almost nobody else is interviewed or featured. Luckily for the director, Fox shot her own video that helped chronicle her fight and her family. The filmmaker shot additional footage that expands her process. While the camera lingers on Fox’s face for much of the film, we seldom get much insight into her feelings (she only cries once). Also, much of the chronology and details of the circumstances are omitted, making it hard to follow. Despite the heart-breaking situation of this woman and her family, the film feels objective and never achieves a strong emotional effect that the story should engender.… Expand

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tropicAces

Apr 26, 2021

Well-shot and beautifully scored, the film lacks the narrative heft to be anything more than empty calories. What happened to their third accomplice? Why does the film not mention that they turned down a plea deal and went to go jurors’ homes? There are hundreds of people who were wronged byWell-shot and beautifully scored, the film lacks the narrative heft to be anything more than empty calories. What happened to their third accomplice? Why does the film not mention that they turned down a plea deal and went to go jurors’ homes? There are hundreds of people who were wronged by our prison system, but this ain’t one.… Expand

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grapesnacks

Oct 27, 2020

They committed an armed robbery, threatening people's lives, to get the money to start a hip hop clothing store. 60 years is a long sentence, it should have been 20 years or so. He definitely deserved to go to jail, and so did his wife. This documentary lacks objectivity. It pulls on theThey committed an armed robbery, threatening people's lives, to get the money to start a hip hop clothing store. 60 years is a long sentence, it should have been 20 years or so. He definitely deserved to go to jail, and so did his wife. This documentary lacks objectivity. It pulls on the heartstrings, trying to create sympathy for the subjects, but it ignores the seriousness of what they did. It also promotes, without scrutiny, the insane leftist idea of prison abolition.… Expand

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