Critic Reviews
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V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Sarkies avoids the genre's conventional trappings and prefers instead to concentrate on the ways in which the people of Aramoana deal with the unfolding event.
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Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
Robert Sarkies' dramatization of that event is as sensitive to its subject as it is stark in its rendering.
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Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Without such thematic resonance, it plays like a more elaborate version of one of the dramatic re-creations seen on any number of true-crime television programs.
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Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times
Like Steven Spielberg's historical epics, the film shows the nastiest incidents from a great distance, or cuts away before a bullet's impact to show an onlooker's shocked reaction. The director confronts horror without wallowing in it.
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Aaron Hillis, Village Voice
There's some nifty soft-focus cinematography and fine performances, but otherwise, not much to resonate on this side of the pond.
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Lois Lawn
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