Only a filmmaker so resourceful, so entirely confident in his practiced craft, could have made such a quilt out of patches of nightmare and nostalgia -- of gospels, ghosts, and grief.

| Feb 1, 2018

There isn't an ounce of flab or hype, and the story it tells is profoundly affecting.

| Sep 22, 2008

A compelling, straightforward account of a deeply sorrowful and pivotal event in the civil rights movement.

Full Review | May 16, 2008

The big part of Lee's film commemorates the lives of the '4 little girls' who died, through the memories of parents, siblings and friends.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

There is mostly sadness and regret at the surface in 4 Little Girls, but there is anger in the depths, as there should be.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

4 Little Girls brilliantly captures a moment in American history and tells an achingly painful story of injustice and family loss.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A thoughtful, graceful, quietly devastating account.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2000