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

Both infuriating and also unexpectedly uplifting in its celebration of family unity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 15, 2023

The film is sometimes confusing and somewhat baggy structurally but it tells a sobering story. Silver Dollar Road serves as a troubling reminder that racist violence is not always physical, but can be financial and judicial too.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2023

The film widens its polemic to a cultural analysis of land ownership in the US yet never once becomes dry or academic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 12, 2023

[A] riling — but not without joy — documentary.

| Sep 29, 2023

A very loving, normal family heroically sought justice. Documentary fans will want to see how they did it. Here it is.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2023

Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck has a knack for making unconventional documentaries that pull no punches.

| Sep 14, 2023

A celebration, an elegy, and a profound recording of a frustrating historical wrong.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 14, 2023

Never manages to land its punches.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 12, 2023

The Reels’ story, complete with these ebullient moments, deserves to be told. But it warrants so much more attention to detail, so that we can understand exactly what’s at stake, and how to keep it from happening again.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 11, 2023

Peck follows the beats of a ProPublica and New Yorker story published in 2019. But by putting these people and this land onscreen, he takes a single case study and gives it a face and a heart.

| Sep 10, 2023

Tender in its portrait of family and community.

| Sep 9, 2023

A triumph of personal, sensitive film-making that sheds light on a shadowy vestige of Jim Crow, an argument that’s infuriating and informative without ever tipping into sensationalism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2023