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

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

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

| Oct 25, 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

LeMay deftly follows the lives of two men, Clifford and Curtis. Their stories reverberate as a poignant indictment of a social disaster that began long before New Orleans' poor, black, and elderly citizens were abandoned to die.

| Oct 2, 2007