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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stskotty

Oct 16, 2020

For all of the couch critics giving this 1 star then boiling it down to a slogan (do the crime do the time) it must be nice to judge from from a perch of privilege. You missed the point. But I guess if you've never had to consider what you might do in a situation you'll never in a millionFor all of the couch critics giving this 1 star then boiling it down to a slogan (do the crime do the time) it must be nice to judge from from a perch of privilege. You missed the point. But I guess if you've never had to consider what you might do in a situation you'll never in a million years be in the very thought of wearing those shoes is impossible. I think of the young men who've raped women but had a family who could afford a well connected attorney. The fact that our prisons are for profit not only for the corporations but the state may be something that doesn't interest you because it doesn't affect you. But if you took the time to watch this … Expand

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Nexogeos

Apr 17, 2021

SI bien admiro mucho la historia que se está contando, no puedo mentir que me dejo bastante frío, no es porque no me importe lo que están viendo, sino porque encuentro que nunca nos muestran cómo sufren realmente, nunca vemos que siente el padre al no poder ver crecer a sus hijos, nuncaSI bien admiro mucho la historia que se está contando, no puedo mentir que me dejo bastante frío, no es porque no me importe lo que están viendo, sino porque encuentro que nunca nos muestran cómo sufren realmente, nunca vemos que siente el padre al no poder ver crecer a sus hijos, nunca vemos a estos sentir algo por crecer sin un padre y no vemos cómo la madre se tiene que enfrentar al hecho de que tiene que criar a sus hijos sola por 18 años, esto perfectamente uno lo puede inferir pero les falto mostrarnos esos momentos de debilidad, tiene una gran fotografía, una protagonista muy carismática he de decir y la sustancia suficiente para no sentirla manipuladora, pero es la falta de esos ganchos emocionales lo que me dejaron algo indiferente hacia la obra.… Expand

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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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Xerby

Aug 7, 2021

Весь фильм вертится вокруг того, что как же сложно семье жить без отца, который, ну подумаешь, попытался совершить вооружённое ограбление банка вместе с женой и братом. И полтора часа фильм пытается убедить зрителя, что сажать в тюрьму за преступления - расизм. И что сам факт тюрем - расизм.Весь фильм вертится вокруг того, что как же сложно семье жить без отца, который, ну подумаешь, попытался совершить вооружённое ограбление банка вместе с женой и братом. И полтора часа фильм пытается убедить зрителя, что сажать в тюрьму за преступления - расизм. И что сам факт тюрем - расизм. Потому что чёрные чаще совершают преступления, а значит чаще сидят, а значит вся тюремная система сделана чтобы издеваться над чёрными... Такое вот кино.… 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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