The narration is slow, but the film gives you a vivid trip back in time with its array of archive visual material — not only from 온라인카지노추천 news but also from army sources.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2023

This is a polemic, but one that burns steadily under the surface and asks the viewer to take a measured approach to its material.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 30, 2023

A defiant critique of how political narratives are crafted to hurt communities.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2023

A shiver of disquiet runs right through it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2023

The film does not need to be flashy or abstract in the editing style as there is plenty to keep you engaged purely on the information and archival footage.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 10, 2023

Pettengill’s film feels less like a historical documentary and more like a personal video essay, wry and angry, aimed at the military-industrial complex.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2023

A rousing and incisive documentary gamely tackling the most crucial social problem in modern America. The more things stay the same, it seems to say, the harder they are to change.

| Jan 18, 2023

Sierra Pettengill’s documentary looks at the origins of the militarization of American policing, beginning in the 1960s as a response to civil unrest which some people in power perceived only as threats to public order.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 3, 2023

The direct line from the events, decisions and polices depicted in Riotsville, U.S.A. to the fascist voices of today who insist their way is the only way of being a patriot makes the film explosively damning.

| Nov 23, 2022

Riotsville, U.S.A., despite the rich material it had to work with, fails to capture the enormity of its implications.

| Nov 1, 2022

The archival documentary Riotsville, USA presents fascinating footage (the movie's best asset), but the movie's narration tends to be politically biased and preachy. Viewers can make up their own minds without being told what to think about the footage.

| Oct 16, 2022

Riotsville, USA is a definitely worth your time and attention.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2022

You could watch "Riotsville, U.S.A." and think: “This is how we got here.” The better response might be: “How the hell are we still here?”

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2022

Riotsville, USA displays things that anyone could have seen for themselves in the turbulent late 1960s. It was all around us, in city streets and college campuses. Battle lines were being drawn.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 7, 2022

Pettengil’s documentary offers an entry point into thinking about how this footage of the past...operates as a set of power relations—vehicles of indoctrination that are yet open to being contested.

| Oct 7, 2022

What “Riotsville, USA” gets right about that pivotal year, and every year since, is the governmental paranoia and overreaction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2022

Watching this documentary from the vantage point of a post-2020 uprisings America, it's even easier to see that the conditions we live under aren't foreordained but rather maintained by racism, classism, violence, and structural indifference.

| Oct 5, 2022

Sierra Pettengill’s disquieting documentary uses only archival footage shot by the military and clips from period news coverage to explore this uncanny episode in the country’s history.

| Oct 1, 2022

After a while of watching this video with interjections from other sources, it ceases to be interesting. Repeating as it does, occasionally with some fairly uninvolving and flatly spoken narration...

| Sep 27, 2022

It's a documentary about futility, about people trying to understand the problem of unrest but unwilling to understand the problem.

| Sep 23, 2022