Thematic schizophrenia...it agrees that the media stereotype blacks as uneducated thugs and rappers, while its own main characters are crack addicts, ex-cons, and Master P.

| Original Score: D | Feb 3, 2008

A fascinating glimpse at the almost endless obstacles given to Katrina survivors...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2008

This little known human interest story is a fascinating one.

Full Review | Nov 26, 2007

[Director] LeMay earns points for his balanced presentation of key figures on both sides.

Full Review | Nov 13, 2007

There is undeniable power to the central dilemma of human beings at a crossroads.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2007

A thoughtful and interesting look at a little-told Katrina story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 26, 2007

A case of great material and sloppy presentation.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 26, 2007

Screenwriter Thomas Lemmer and director Alex LeMay appear to have some sort of agenda or ax to grind.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 25, 2007

Desert Bayou is at its most compelling when it stops preachifying and focuses on the lives of two troubled families.

| Oct 25, 2007

People rarely enter into audacious commitments with such unforeseeable consequences. For me, it casts Utah in a new and, surprisingly, positive light.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 22, 2007

The result is by turns sad, infuriating, frustrating and cautiously hopeful.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2007

Does great justice to the appalling aftermath of the biggest natural disaster to hit America in our lifetime.

| Oct 12, 2007

LeMay's approach is a clumsily obvious one which demeans everything by turning the men's experiences into a kind of reality-온라인카지노추천 soap opera.

| Oct 12, 2007

A scathing documentary baring a nation into deep denial about lingering buried injustices and inequities which rose to the surface exposed to the light of day, in the wake of the Katrina floods.

Full Review | Oct 9, 2007

The failure of our current administration to act openly and efficiently in a time of crisis gets another documentary close-up in Alex LeMay's humanistic and provocative Desert Bayou.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2007

There are thousands of untold stories still left to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It's worth hearing the ones Alex LeMay shares in this compassionate, if somewhat underdeveloped, documentary.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 5, 2007

Feels less like a revelatory feature film than several shorts strung together.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 5, 2007

A fascinating and guardedly hopeful tale about race, class, religion and geography in American life.

| Oct 4, 2007

Succeeds in furthering the much-needed dialogue on a defining event in our current political moment.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 4, 2007

The lengthy and often heartbreaking interview sequences in the second half ultimately reveal a story that is, metaphorically at least, a tad less black-and-white.

| Original Score: B | Oct 3, 2007