I've grown increasingly restive at such films as Mississippi Burning, A Time to Kill, and Ghosts of Mississippi... All three films celebrate the heroism of white law officers in prosecuting racist killers.

| Dec 5, 2018

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: C- | Jan 1, 2011

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 25, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 15, 2005

Strangely devoid of any emotional weight.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 28, 2004

Well intended film with James Woods Oscar worthy in a key role.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2004

Strong performances but just another movie about civil rights issues that pays too much attention to the white characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 23, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 15, 2003

Reiner's intermittingly preachy but nevertheless powerful and poignant portrait of hostility and racial strife during one of the ugliest chapters in contemporary American history

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 19, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 31, 2002

Convincingly plumbs the spiritual impules behind the yearning for justice.

| Aug 29, 2002

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2002

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000