Coogler’s Fruitvale Station is less about American violence and more about American vulnerability. Specifically, the lack thereof.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2023

Minus a few small stumbles, which can be expected from a first time filmmaker, “Fruitvale Station” is still an emotionally powerful film that puts a spotlight on an unfortunate tragedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

For something attempting to be intimate, it's instead kind of smothering

| Jan 14, 2022

First-time director Ryan Coogler chose to tell Grant's story as a narrative instead of a documentary to centre his voice and his life, in the process raising important questions about police brutality and the value of black lives.

| Jul 13, 2021

Ultimately, Fruitvale Station is a great film because it sticks to a single core concept - the portrayal of a single life, the mundane, difficult, and sublime nature of which was lost in the media controversy and the ensuing riots.

| Feb 25, 2021

This is not an easy film to watch, but it's an important one. It should be and needs to be seen.

| Original Score: A | Jul 24, 2020

Prophetic and timely...and a painful yet insightful view into what ails America today.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2020

Coogler provides a suspenseful moral parable overflowing with the kind of incongruities that pepper the lives of our martyrs: Harvey, Matthew and Tyler Clementi.

| Jun 19, 2020

Fruitvale Station offers no social remedies, but by recreating Grant's final hours, it actualizes him as a man, not just a rally cry.

| Mar 31, 2020

Fruitvale Station is one "must see" stop for all movie-goers.

| Nov 27, 2019

Fruitvale Station is courageous, heartbreaking and will surely lead its director and lead actor into the greatness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2019

Fruitvale Station is at its best...(save one purple section where Oscar cradles a dying dog) as Coogler gives us the story of a young black man in crisis.

| Original Score: 3.8/5 | Nov 19, 2019

Such sad outcomes are all too commonplace in the United States, and this simple, stridently moving film drives home the pointlessness of a life lost for no reason.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2019

It's a rough sit, sometimes unpleasant, and ultimately deeply painful, but somehow an essential watch.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2019

Ryan Coogler, aided by a wonderfully compelling performance from his central actor, has created an emotionally strong film that stays in the heart and corners of the eyes for a long time after the credits.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2019

It's a film that shines with passion and truth, and which you can't help feeling ought to be compulsory viewing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2019

Fruitvale Station will rattle you to the core.

| Original Score: 9.1/10 | Apr 12, 2019

It's a powerful piece of filmmaking that is full of raw energy -- a movie that will stay with you long after the closing credits roll.

| Apr 9, 2019

It's Coogler's confrontational depiction of police brutality and his attempts to represent the society he aims to inspire and inform that makes Fruitvale Station such essential viewing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2019

When that shot comes, you've forgotten that it's been waiting for you this whole time, and it's twice as heartbreaking now that Fruitvale Station has made you care.

| Nov 16, 2018