Peck ties the story of this one extended family to a larger pattern of Black families in the South becoming dispossessed of their land through a variety of legal and extra-legal maneuvers.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 4, 2024

Silver Dollar Road is an exposition of the abuses of power that are leveled against the Reels family. Its story of injustice at the hands of a system that is supposed to provide justice for all remains, unfortunately, timely.

| Nov 13, 2023

By documenting one family’s fight against oppression and injustice, the film becomes a story of resistance, resilience, and a celebration of heritage.

| Nov 10, 2023

Shows great compassion for its subjects, while also contextualizing the history

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2023

Peck allows a gentler curiosity to peek through the injustice and that’s something I suspect is a reflection of its subjects rather than any real mellowing of the director’s talents—of which the film is still nevertheless a strong testament to.

| Oct 30, 2023

Hopefully, this film gives their story some traction and attention and raises awareness so that some justice might still happen, but the battle continues, even though Melvin and Licurtis were finally released from jail.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2023

Silver Dollar Road is not great nonfiction storytelling, leaving a slew of questions dangling in its way. Yet it’s potent enough nonetheless to make your blood boil a bit.

| Oct 23, 2023

An infuriating story that reminds us that stealing land from its rightful owners will always be a part of the playbook of the people with the gold.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2023

Haitian director Raoul Peck’s latest documentary is a poignant portrait of a quotidian Wakanda, a North Carolina seafront neighborhood where the queens and kings – unlike in the Marvel Universe – have no superpowers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2023

Powerful racial justice story about the court fight over a valued waterfront property.

| Original Score: B | Oct 21, 2023

Silver Dollar Road complements Presser’s work with Peck’s erudition and humane touch.

| Original Score: 8.2/10 | Oct 20, 2023

The sacrifice of Melvin and Licurtis, combined with the coverage and now the film about their incarceration, should help to bring attention to this largely ignored property law issue.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 20, 2023

Director Raoul Peck, who helmed that amazing James Baldwin doc I Am Not Your Negro in 2016, keeps things routine yet efficient, giving us a family history that’s in danger of getting bulldozed and gentrified.

| Original Score: B | Oct 19, 2023

A story of struggle told at the point where systemic racism and parasitic capitalism intersect, filmmaker Raoul Peck’s Silver Dollar Road is a metaphor for the fallacy of the American dream...

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 19, 2023

[Director Raoul] Peck does too little to establish the logistics of Adams Creek’s pursuits or the legal loopholes at play.

| Oct 19, 2023

Silver Dollar Road is far more concerned—and rightfully so—with the impact decades of legal battles have had on the Reels.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 19, 2023

When it comes to its central legal struggle, though, it leaves out so many crucial details that it cuts itself off at the knees.

| Oct 19, 2023

No one here is defined by this struggle, and amid the looming threats to a cherished home, Peck’s accomplishment is to let the Reels family own their emotional space.

| Oct 19, 2023

Silver Dollar Road” is an awful story, but only because inside it is a beautiful one of what this peaceful enclave on Adams Creek has meant to generations of Reels.

| Oct 16, 2023

Silver Dollar Road is a blood-boiling tale of discrimination told with elegance and quiet fury.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2023