Chilling and essential.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 29, 2016

This doc is a vital record of an America transitioning to martial law so quickly and stealthily that we're barely acknowledging the change.

| Dec 1, 2016

As chilling as it is one-sided.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 14, 2016

Doubling down as director and cinematographer, Craig Atkinson proves worthy at both assignments.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2016

While Atkinson's intentions are good, his methods are shaky, resulting in a surface-skimming film that raises issues without ever approaching a solution.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 11, 2016

This is not a film about racism in America. It is, instead, a film about the increased militarization of America's police forces. And it is scary stuff indeed.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 4, 2016

Most of these bits and pieces have merit, but the connections are so loose that "Do Not Resist" amounts to little more than a grab bag.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 20, 2016

Atkinson tracks the civil administration of this domestic buildup... The director also examines the gung ho police culture that encourages domestic militarization

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2016

The parameters of homeland security are chillingly assessed in "Do Not Resist," a troubling documentary examining the escalating militarization of the nation's police forces.

| Oct 13, 2016

Calls attention to a trend that has led to some startling societal changes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2016

It's a brisk 72-minutes, compact with hard-hitting data, rare behind-the-scenes footage of police activity (training, private discussions, on-the-job combat, etc.), and compelling personal anecdotes.

| Oct 5, 2016

In this new and vital documentary, Craig Atkinson interrogates what is happening in American police departments and why cops' presence on the streets looks more and more like war.

| Oct 4, 2016

A furious and often terrifying documentary about the militarization of US police.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2016

The film doesn't unearth anything that hasn't already been voiced, and it could use more details on the scope of the phenomenon. But with more police shootings in the headlines just in the past few days, it's nothing if not timely.

| Sep 29, 2016

Law-enforcement militarization is haphazardly addressed in this skimpy hot-button doc.

| Sep 29, 2016

It's a sober account of police militarization in the 21st century that, no matter one's stance on the matter, makes a brutal statement.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 27, 2016

Craig Atkinson's Do Not Resist avoids the handwringing format of other (very welcome) examinations of 21st-century American policing, offering instead something like a despairing tone poem.

| Sep 27, 2016

Director Craig Atkinson's film explicates its points with blunt but persuasive efficiency.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2016

The filmmaking is impressive - no narration, little expert testimony, mostly just cameras observing the terrifying present - and the question Atkinson ultimately asks couldn't be more timely.

| Apr 26, 2016

Stylistically uninspiring, with a tedious threatening sound design, but the powerful subject matter largely overcomes such missteps ...

| Apr 25, 2016