Dreamcatcher is enlightening and sobering, but as a piece of craft it doesn’t match the commitment of its subject; it’s effectively a selective database of recorded testimony rather than a sculpted take on same...

| Jan 23, 2023

A powerful documentary about a charity that helps the homeless women of Chicago...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2021

There's nothing filmically astounding about Dreamcatcher, but its content is powerful, tragic, and important.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2019

Myers-Powell is glamorous, perceptive, and witty, but most striking is her unfailing kindness to the women and girls she encounters in the film.

| Mar 9, 2019

Much of this unflinchingly observed film - titled Dreamcatcher and named after Brenda's organisation - has the flavour of a nightmare.

| Dec 12, 2015

Myers-Powell understands the psychology of human trafficking, and her advice is admirably sober, clear-eyed, and devoid of sentiment.

| Sep 10, 2015

n every gesture, Myers-Powell matches her simple, stern declaration: "If you know somebody got your back, you'll make it."

| Sep 8, 2015

Despite the harrowing stories that fill the film from start to finish, "Dreamcatcher" is not hopeless. How could it be hopeless when there are people like Myers-Powell in the world?

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 27, 2015

These stories are hard to hear, but Myers-Powell demonstrates that bearing witness and testifying are key to recovery and healing, as are unconditional love and a belief that no one is past redemption.

| Mar 19, 2015

It's a surprising, unlikely record of the peaks, troughs and specificity of being human.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2015

Longinotto has made a lacerating film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 11, 2015

Like its subject, this documentary is powerful, honest, and empowering. Bravo.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2015

We are reminded of unhappy truths about capitalism and the US way of justice. But we also get to savour that nation's perennially stirring belief in reinvention.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2015

A beautiful, unashamed document of one of the biggest humanitarian crisis' of the modern world.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 6, 2015

An extraordinarily personal story about prostitution, one with a gentle but undeniable humanist force for hopeful understanding.

| Mar 6, 2015

Despite the hard-hitting nature of the material, Longinotto never sensationalises or sentimentalises her subject and so delivers a galvanising portrait of female heroism and endurance that's clear, dignified and marked by a touching empathy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2015

From street to cell, this is a precise, thoroughgoing indictment of the systemic sexism, racism and classism that creates a climate of endemic sex work, and it combines this with bold and revelatory strategies for making change.

| Mar 5, 2015

An exemplary piece of verit film-making.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2015

Director Kim Longinotto somehow inveigles her camera into the lives of prostitutes, abused teenagers and drug addicts on the streets of Chicago, and elicits confessions and revelations that leave you gasping.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2015

It's grim, unfussy and deeply moving.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2015