Singleton's main goal is the vivid re-creation of mob violence, and he achieves it expertly.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 5, 2020

Singleton's boldness is invigorating _ and merciless.

| Jun 5, 2020

Harrowing this may be, but the concessions to commercialism rob it of much of its genuine power.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2020

Singleton brings the images and underlying psychological truths of American racial violence to the screen with a brute dramatic force that few directors have matched.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

At its best, Rosewood touches a still-raw nerve.

| Jul 6, 2010

Rhames' gravity and grace, Voight's pinched anguish as he wills himself to do right, the moving work of actors like Don Cheadle and Esther Rolle do much to redeem this film for human if not historical reality.

| Apr 28, 2010

Although it increasingly succumbs to a tendency toward conventional movie heroics, John Singleton's fourth film tells a story of rare interest and tragedy...

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2002

The need to bear witness against atrocity, to testify that something wicked this way came, is the powerful drive that animates Rosewood, the story of an American tragedy so horrific no one talked about it for more than half a century.

| Feb 14, 2001

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

It's doubtful a viewer of any race will be unshaken by this horrifying look back during Black History Month.

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

Rosewood is startling, infuriating, painful history played out as a not-very-satisfying, overly ambitious and overlong movie.

| Jan 1, 2000

Neither the film's smug white bigots nor its uniformly noble blacks are well served by such oversimplification.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

If the movie were simply the story of this event, it would be no more than a sad record. What makes it more is the way it shows how racism breeds and feeds, and is taught by father to son.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The movie's greatest success lies in what it's about -- not what it actually is. The true events of 1923 hang palpably over the movie; they also eclipse it.

| Jan 1, 2000