“The Rape of Recy Taylor” is not an easy film to watch, but it brings Taylor to life in a way that shows her as a complete person in contrast to true crime, which sensationalizes the situation and creates the pleasure of tabloid.

| Jun 9, 2024

Nancy Buirksi's unflinching documentary, The Rape of Recy Taylor, is timely...

| Nov 4, 2021

This important and well-researched documentary tells a story long waiting to be told and resonates with current revelations of sexual harassment and abuse.

| Nov 4, 2021

It will leave you heartbroken and outraged, but this film will also fire you up to fight in solidarity with these trailblazing women.

| Nov 4, 2021

Weaving together archive footage and contemporary talking heads, filmmaker Nancy Buirski creates a desperately moving portrait of the fight against injustice.

| Nov 4, 2021

Tough yet really inspiring, A timely, articulate voice that bellows with brave audacity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2020

The film is a moving tribute to the mostly unseen women who were nevertheless the backbone of the Civil Rights Movement.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 30, 2019

The Rape of Recy Taylor shines another damning spotlight on the appalling legacy of slavery. Yet the film itself never quite gets to grips with how to tell Taylor's story in a way that's simultaneously sensitive, cinematic and journalistically rigorous.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2018

The subject matter is harrowing enough without extra strings.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2018

Very much of the Me Too moment, this uneven but important documentary exists to give a voice to the voiceless, in this case the "staggering" number of black women raped by white men throughout US history.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 25, 2018

A prescient and important film about the civil rights movement and one woman's fight for justice, which is told honestly and respectfully.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2018

[A] harrowing and very instructive documentary...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2018

[Director Nancy] Buirski's documentary acknowledges [Recy Taylor's] role in a bigger story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2018

It's a strong film: chastening, shocking, steeped in fractious ironies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2018

Intimate interviews set the stage for the director to zoom out and connect the family's story to the ways Black women were dehumanized under slavery and in the Jim Crow South.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2018

I would recommend it for those who think they need to see it as an overlooked Civil Rights story.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 1, 2018

Buirski's documentary is eye opening. It challenges the historical status-quo and draws attention towards African-American women's contributions to the Civil Rights movement.

| Dec 20, 2017

Taylor's story is one thread in a much larger, tattered tapestry of race and gender relations that Buirski's compassionate film helps to illuminate.

| Dec 19, 2017

Planting a flag firmly at the intersection of patriarchy, sexism and white supremacy, "The Rape of Recy Taylor" is a documentary of multiple layers and marvelous gumption.

| Dec 14, 2017

The film is a haunting, damning unpacking of history that also reminds us how little progress we've made.

| Dec 13, 2017