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- 2020
- PG-13
- Amazon Studios
- 1 h 21 m
- 2020
- PG-13
- Amazon Studios
- 1 h 21 m
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 the...
Directed By: Garrett Bradley
- 2020
- PG-13
- Amazon Studios
- 1 h 21 m
- 2020
- PG-13
- Amazon Studios
- 1 h 21 m
Time
5.0
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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 the...
Directed By: Garrett Bradley
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
91
100% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
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0% Negative
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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.
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.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 65 User Ratings
5.0
43% Positive
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
18% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
38% Negative
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 65 User Ratings
5.0
43% Positive
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
18% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
38% Negative
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
Time is not a cut-and-dried chronology. Rather it’s a poetic rumination on atonement and endurance, one that chops up and reorders time itself to give us a powerful portrait of a woman who refuses to take no for an answer.
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.
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.
In Time it’s an almost superhuman sense of togetherness that rings through, a refusal to bow down, to be broken or defeated.
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.
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 thou negative reviews. They are from moralistic people who have no heart for human suffering and/or for people of color.
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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 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.
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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’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.
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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.
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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 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.
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Production Company
Amazon Studios,
Concordia Studio,
The New York Times,
Outer Piece,
Hedgehog Films,
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program,
The John D. & Catherine MacArthur Foundation,
Concordia Studio Artists in Residence,
Good Gravy Films
Release Date Oct 9, 2020
Duration 1 h 21 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 3 Wins & 7 Nominations
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
