Detroit is a timely film with a relevancy that cannot and should not be ignored any longer.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2024

Detroit suggests that the self-destructive riots only resulted in further despair, but to not act in the face of such widespread racism would be almost inhuman. Indeed, there are no easy or cohesive answers or solutions in the film, nor in the real world.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2022

Indeed, Detroit is a jarring ride in a car with no brakes that will leave you rattled and in a haze once its over.

| Feb 11, 2022

There's the famous saying that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Director Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, Detroit shows us in vivid, cinematic brilliance how true this axiom really is.

| Aug 25, 2021

The unfortunate aspect of 'Detroit' is the unconvincing shift in perspective that starts everywhere and narrows to here: this motel, this courtroom, these people, this event.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 30, 2021

A film about the 1967 race riots that feels sadly relevant.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2021

Detroit is a pulse-pounding, shocking, and poignant film, that becomes even more sad when you realize that after 50 years, we still have not come far from this fateful night in the motor city.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 15, 2021

Detroit is the culmination of superb performances and intense editing and cinematography under the calculating yet naturalistic guidance of a master director.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2020

In the end, what cripples Bigelow's Detroit are its false conceptions.

| Aug 27, 2020

Detroit understands the technical mechanics of the brutality, going as far to explain what that judgement feels like using Carl (Jason Mitchell) as an example. But the psychological fear is where it slightly underperformed.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 26, 2020

Detroit is not a movie that cares about the issues tied to ending Black lives; it's a movie that's interested in beating and shooting Black bodies.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2020

It is definitely pacing and editing that are the biggest flaws here, the narrative structure just seems to go haywire in the second half. It feels at least twice as long as it actually is and this is a disservice to the real people involved.

| Jul 2, 2020

Detroit is one of the best and most important films of the year. It's the kind of film that will not only make you think, but also make you angry ... this sort of injustice could ever have happened ... [and] is still relevant, fifty years after the fact.

| Jun 30, 2020

Detroit is as incendiary, pulse-pounding, relevant, and essential a work as you are likely to see this year, and it's easily one of the best films of the year.

| May 12, 2020

After watching Detroit, emotionally-depleted and politically-agitated moviegoers are guaranteed to stumble out of the theatre feeling woke - I'm not so sure about entertained.

| Mar 30, 2020

Kudos to Bigelow/Boal for traversing such troubled waters, even if the product, in my estimation, is all bite and little substance.

| Mar 24, 2020

The rage pulsing throughout this movie is one that can spark conversation, engage brain synapses, even cause change. The question is, how much do we want to change, and how many more Algiers will we endure?

| Feb 19, 2020

You'll see a well-made piece of cinema from one of the best auteur directors in Hollywood, but is the trauma worth the cost of admission?

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 10, 2020

Though there's still plenty in the film that should be lauded - the saturated and claustrophobic cinematography, and potent performances from most of the cast, for instance - it's a film that should be watched with a disclaimer.

| Jan 7, 2020

Overall, Detroit paints a grim and upsetting picture on civil rights in the 1960s, but one that needs to be depicted for modern audiences. Through Bigelow's direction and a standout performance from Poulter, it needs to be seen to be believed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2019