Wilkerson’s anguish as someone desperately aware of his family history and inability to truly rectify same makes a greater impression than any potential momentary catharsis.

| Jan 11, 2023

It's not the most uplifting experience you'll have in the theater this year, but it will be one of the most essential and unforgettable.

| Jun 11, 2020

[A] deeply discomfiting examination of white identity and privilege with the power to rattle viewers to their core.

| Nov 16, 2019

A radical sledgehammer of a film, a ferocious work of avant-garde essay filmmaking that dares to hold a mirror up to a white audience and demand that we examine our own complicity in a racist society.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 3, 2019

While the film may sound depressing based on the subject matter, it's actually quite rousing...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 23, 2019

[Wilkerson] cannot undo his great-grandfather's evil, or posthumously indict him for murder ... All he can do is fight through the shame of his bloodline and tell his story, with the hope that someone listens and learns.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2018

Wilkerson is absolving himself of demons by calling them by their name. But while that sounds revelatory as a live installation, something gets lost in this translation.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 10, 2018

A fate all to common for too many African-Americans and though the filmmaker voices concern that this was not his story to tell, you're truly grateful that someone did and truly moved by the way Wilkerson chose to tell it.

| Nov 1, 2018

A well-intentioned documentary on racial injustice in the Deep South that was never addressed by white America.

| Original Score: B | Oct 31, 2018

Boasting is evident in Wilkerson's bona fides -- his lockstep progressivism.

| Oct 31, 2018

[Travis] Wilkerson has a really keen eye. Not many people wanted to talk, so oftentimes the camera is artfully focused on an imposing tree or a dilapidated building.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2018

Not since Ross McElwee's Sherman's March has there been such a contemplative and resonating look at the South through a subjective documentary lens.

| Mar 17, 2018

"Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?" is at its sharpest and most necessary when Wilkerson interrogates his personal connection to the past.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 2, 2018

It's the kind of honesty and ownership that's rarely seen in film, let alone in real life.

| Mar 1, 2018

Wilkerson's ruminative documentary brings home the filmmaker's preoccupation with the confluence of individual and institutional violence in an exceptionally personal manner.

| Mar 1, 2018

It's hard to shake the idea that the 'live documentary' approach isn't a little more satisfying for this material, but it's impossible to deny the power of much of what's on display here.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 28, 2018

For someone so gloomily aware of his own privilege, Wilkerson spends a lot of the film playing dumb and speculating-a writer's trick for giving shape to a piece with a thesis and no conclusion.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 28, 2018

Through this personal journey, Wilkerson accesses America's heart of darkness.

| Feb 27, 2018

"Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?" is a passionately political film, aflame with rage in spite of its director's measured, ruminative tone of voice. It is also a horror movie, full of specters and silences and a terror that is pervasive ...

| Feb 27, 2018

When the repressed past gains sudden and violent visibility in the present, the genre that's evoked is horror, and one of the film's greatest strengths is the way it leans into this association.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 27, 2018