Detroit is vivid and it is demanding, designed to shake you out of complacency.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2017

The motel sequence is so suspenseful that it's a shame that what follows is so perfunctory.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 10, 2017

It's not an easy film to watch but Bigelow's control over every aspect ensures it's utterly convincing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 8, 2017

Detroit, however, suggests [director Kathryn Bigelow] - and her current screenwriter - still can't quite tell the difference between an impactful film and an important one.

| Sep 22, 2017

What might be most characteristic of Bigelow is the eerie feeling that the police are halfway 'acting out', performing their brutality.

| Sep 4, 2017

It is a harrowing, relentless and intensely angry movie. As it should be.

| Aug 31, 2017

It's an admirably worthy project, but not nearly as worthy of your time as it ought to be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 28, 2017

As a wake-up call to a nation, it is tense, tough and terrifyingly timely.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2017

Detroit becomes a kind of neo-Gothic horror story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2017

Detroit comes out of its corner slugging and barely stops. By the end the viewer has a swollen eye, ringing ears and a conviction that the referee should have stopped the fight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2017

Each actor inhabits their role with a precision and mettle that means even in the depths of confusion, the complex group dynamics are easy to read.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2017

In its own polemical way, it is very powerful filmmaking but, as storytelling, it is one-dimensional. There is too much "docu" here and not enough drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2017

Fascinating but deeply flawed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2017

The interminable central act, dramatizing the events at the Algiers [Motel], overflows with impotent rage and horror.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 18, 2017

[Detroit] is a film that, for all its emotional power, is strangely disengaged from the cultural and systemic forces that led to police brutality in 1967 and continue to do so today.

| Aug 17, 2017

Bigelow is too talented a director to make a film this unsubtle. Detroit is a classic of example of: Just because you can do something, that doesn't mean you should.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 10, 2017

I don't hate Detroit; I simply can't recommend it.

| Aug 9, 2017

The violence in Detroit is gratuitous simply because there is so much of it and it is so profoundly repugnant.

| Aug 8, 2017

For Black Americans, the events of Detroit '67 are not the events of a 'dramatic thriller.' They are the events of a tragedy and still-living history we know very well.

| Original Score: ** | Aug 7, 2017

Bigelow doesn't have as original, as distinctive, as reflective a sense of cinematic drama as the extraordinary subject matter of "Detroit" requires.

| Aug 7, 2017