At the Ready Reviews
A dose of sobering insight.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 25, 2021
Plays like a frightening but necessary exposé of state-sanctioned copaganda targeting young people from marginalized backgrounds to groom them into instruments of their very oppressor.
| Oct 22, 2021
Crow is so successful in patiently capturing subjects like Kassy, placed in extremely difficult positions, in a grounded manner that illustrates how nuanced the contexts of these issues are.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 21, 2021
This disquieting film illustrates that the path to upward mobility comes at a heart-wrenching cost: placing a career on a direct collision course with far more liberal identities.
| Feb 20, 2021
At the Ready develops strength and empathy as the students profiled do the same.
| Feb 15, 2021
The film wisely probes the complex intersection of race, politics, law enforcement, and adolescence, showing how the school-to-cop pipeline in America is constructed early in the lives of not only these teenagers but also thousands of others.
| Feb 10, 2021
An occasionally inspiring, occasionally disconcerting look at teens processing the world.
| Jan 31, 2021
It's a Pulitzer-worthy cover story in cinematic form.
| Original Score: A- | Jan 31, 2021
An unsettling, often tender and thoroughly well-timed film...
| Jan 31, 2021