The Hunting Ground succeeds as a damning portrait of how colleges have allowed sexual assault to go unchecked, valuing their own reputations over the lives of vulnerable students.

| Jan 25, 2021

It has succeeded at something far greater by letting the audience come to know all the brave women and men it gets to come forward with their stories, putting a human face on this most inhumane of crimes.

| Nov 15, 2018

Stunning, powerful, infuriating.

| May 30, 2016

A useful picture that should be required viewing at freshman orientation.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 23, 2016

U.S. universities have plenty of financial incentives to minimize rape on campus, as this enraging film demonstrates. But there are women fighting back...

| Feb 8, 2016

...in the moment (hey, there's nothing that says documentarians have to abide by lawful definitions of "innocent until proven guilty", I guess) there is an undeniable power to The Hunting Ground that is hard to ignore.

| Original Score: B | Jan 20, 2016

The whole thing made me fearful for my daughter and ashamed. The Hunting Ground underscores all that and brings to light the faces wronged and those looking to make it stop.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2015

An unnerving expose about the proliferation of rape on college campuses across America.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 18, 2015

It's an awfully effective formula. If you're not disgusted by the institutional apathy revealed in The Hunting Ground, you may actually be a sociopath.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2015

It's not the numbers here you'll remember, of course, but the stories. A montage of students relating how they called their parents, post-rape, is the saddest thing you'll see on screen this year.

| Nov 12, 2015

College campus sexual assault is exposed for the American epidemic it truly represents in Kirby Dicks' deeply disturbing call-to-action documentary.

| Jun 30, 2015

Highly upsetting.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 30, 2015

An important film to see for parents, students and anyone involved with academia.

| Original Score: B | Apr 24, 2015

Important but devastating viewing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 17, 2015

When and where your frustration and anger boil over while watching "The Hunting Ground" is an individual experience, one that will be different for everyone who sees it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2015

Perhaps "The Hunting Ground" is more valued as activism than journalism.

| Original Score: B | Apr 10, 2015

The Hunting Ground qualifies as activist filmmaking. More power to it. You can read all the statistics you want, but there's no substitute for bearing witness - especially in such overwhelming numbers.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 9, 2015

Oversimpliies matters somewhat, but...the subject is an extremely timely one, and it presents an extremely important side of it quite persuasively.

| Original Score: B | Apr 3, 2015

This is a story to make blood boil and change demanded.

| Original Score: A | Apr 3, 2015

Provocative and heartbreaking.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 3, 2015