If you could stop a murderer by admitting to being a racist in order to appear as a credible and honest witness, would you do it? OJ: Made in America answers negatively

| Apr 12, 2024

Director Ezra Edelman deserves a tremendous amount of praise for his work here, and if eligible, O.J.: Made in America should be in serious consideration for an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

A scorching and important dissertation, one that shows this American tragedy to be just another thread woven between stars and stripes and blood.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 8, 2019

O.J.: Made in America puts the entire American value system on trial, forcing us to ask the difficult questions about what kind of society creates the environment for such a violent crime to occur while justice remains only as a nebulous ideal.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2018

It is well worth the 7.5 hour watch time, even if you are only tangentially interested in OJ the man.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 10, 2018

Made for the cable sports channel ESPN, OJ: Made in America is a remarkable piece of work, rich in detail and nuance.

| Oct 3, 2018

O.J.: Made in America is an extraordinary achievement in that not only does it provide a definitive overview of O.J.'s life - warts and all - but it offers new insights into events that have been picked over repeatedly over the past 20+ years.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 3, 2018

It will stand alongside the similarly epic Hoop Dreams as a documentary that, with sport as its ostensible subject, also serves as an examination of race in America, and of fame's perverse and distorting effects.

| Sep 12, 2017

At seven and a half hours and split into five parts... Edelman's O.J.: Made in America is tremendous.

| Aug 10, 2017

Not only is this the best O.J documentary by some distance, it is also one of the best documentaries you're likely to see this year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 21, 2017

Edelman has crafted a structure that always seems to answer the viewer's next question without allowing the complicated themes or various narrative threads to become overwhelming.

| Apr 11, 2017

Edelman negotiates the legal turns of the trial (most involving blood evidence and its contamination) without getting too bogged down with courtroom psychodrama and the media frenzy that attached to all the participants.

| Mar 28, 2017

In its whole, it's a biting chronicle of the African-American condition over the past six decades.

| Jan 20, 2017

A substantive and often sensationalistic documentary about the downfall of O.J. Simpson and the rage of African-Americans against injustices.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2016

O.J.: Made in America will surely prove the definitive record of one exceptional African-American's spectacular rise and fall, a graphic illustration of how race, injustice and the pursuit of celebrity collided at the tail-end of the 20th century.

| Dec 13, 2016

It's the finest film ESPN has ever produced and the absolute pinnacle of its 30 for 30 ideology: If you want to understand why sports matter so much to the fabric of our society, there is no clearer illustration than this documentary.

| Dec 5, 2016

An aesthetic and comprehensive 7 1/2-hour documentary on an American hero turned bad.

| Original Score: B | Dec 3, 2016

Although there have been a number of films about this saga, Edelman's is unique in its thoroughness.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 2, 2016

This documentary details that long journey from the 1960s to the new millennium in societal and racial changes, as well as changes in the enigmatic O.J. He got his payback for being born into poverty and oppression, but fell back to the depths again.

| Original Score: B | Nov 23, 2016

Ezra Edelman has painted a first-class portrait of the most divisive of icons, juxtaposing his rise and fall with an eventful period of American history. This is an excellent documentary - a credit to ESPN's 30 for 30 series.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 12, 2016