This is an unblinking look at the upstate 1971 New York massacre...

| Aug 30, 2022

Attica opens another door. This documentary is the rifle held by Sonny [Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon, 1975]. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 11, 2022

It may not break new ground in terms of documentary filmmaking style, but "Attica" successfully brings an under-discussed historical event to modern audiences in a way that subtly highlights its parallels with the current day.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 11, 2022

Attica brings us back to a moment in time that continues to resonate by capturing the people, politics, emotions and tragedy serving as a wake-up call for prison reform and a reminder of the responsibilities of justice.

| May 9, 2022

Authorities rewriting history as it's being made is nothing new. What do you know?

| Original Score: FIVE STARS | Mar 20, 2022

A forthright indictment of the institutional racism and human rights abuses in the American penal system at the time.

| Mar 14, 2022

The Oscar-nominated documentary, which is currently available to view free on many streaming platforms, is a searing look at a dark moment in our penal system.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 27, 2022

The breadth of interviewees allows director Stanley Nelson to expand the story of the riot beyond the prison walls.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 27, 2022

I don't think Attica glorifies the prisoners, but it does humanize them. That is, it presents them as human beings.

| Jan 5, 2022

This is how you indict a system.

| Dec 29, 2021

Attica is one of the most important documentaries any person could watch this year.

| Nov 28, 2021

Traci A. Curry and Stanley Nelson's Attica utterly devastated me.

| Nov 24, 2021

Stanley Nelson's comprehensive and thought-provoking examination of the Attica uprisings and subsequent massacre is a must-watch film in 2021.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 18, 2021

It's easy to label a film like Attica as timely ... but it also serves to shine light on an injustice that has been largely forgotten, and misrepresented when not.

| Nov 16, 2021

Attica is one of the year's most powerful documentaries.

| Nov 13, 2021

In some ways, this is literally a hard film to watch, but an important part of recent history to know and witness.

| Nov 11, 2021

Nelson's film has plenty of input from surviving ex-cons as well as lawyers,reporters and others involved; it also benefits from the substantial film/video records of what was a major national-media event.

| Nov 8, 2021

Nelson has made a career of fixing our gaze, however strong the impulse is to avert it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 5, 2021

It's a worthy - and sadly timely - remembrance of a singular event whose ghosts continue to haunt us.

| Nov 5, 2021

Extraordinary archival footage... You can't just dismissive it as hyperbole.

| Nov 5, 2021