The overall absurdity of the piece left me numb beyond belief. Why stop here? Why not a claymation recreation of the events of 9-11? Or Jiminy Cricket in Steven Spielberg's When You Wish Upon Auschwitz?

| Oct 3, 2018

[The rotoscope technique] gives it urgency and a sense of movement.

| Original Score: 9.6/10 | Sep 12, 2018

This movie is very smart about when it unpacks its interviews versus its recreations. It does it in such a way that I was emotionally flooded.

| Original Score: 9.5/10 | Sep 12, 2018

The sheer beauty of the images gives Tower a surreal quality and drenches it in emotion.

| Sep 12, 2018

A gripping examination of human bravery and frailty in the face of barbarity.

| Feb 14, 2017

A haunting re-creation of a first-of-its-kind tragedy. Fifty years later, it seems, we're no closer to answers or solutions.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 13, 2017

No matter how many years later, no matter how cool your animation technique might be, "Nobody" somehow feels like the wrong answer to that question.

| Feb 13, 2017

Deftly combining archive footage, interviews and handsome rotoscoped animation, Tower is an innovative documentary account of the mass shootings on the University of Texas campus on 1 August 1966.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 5, 2017

The film stands as a powerful, emotional memorial.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2017

Search the film out. It's worth the seeking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2017

This is a morbid but very original film which manages both to be reflective and dramatic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2017

"Tower" is, in a sense, about the last day of this country's innocence, or whatever was left of it after Dallas, 1963.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 19, 2017

Despite the grim topic, Tower offers moments of genuine hope in the acts of bravery and kindness that took place during the siege.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 3, 2016

The result is a remarkable film that deserves an Academy Award nomination for best documentary.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 3, 2016

Easily one of the best films of the year ...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 2, 2016

It brings the terror of those 90 minutes on a sizzling 100-degree August day to vivid life.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 27, 2016

Tower manages to collapse the space between past and present, which, given the timeliness of the subject matter, has a haunting effect.

| Original Score: A | Oct 27, 2016

Maitland has created a documentary with a remarkable you-are-there immediacy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 27, 2016

I rarely, if ever, use the cliche "a must-see movie," but in this case it's entirely apropos.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 20, 2016

'Tower' isn't looking back on the tragedy - it's living in it, a tick-tock of an afternoon's terror, as uncertain of its causes or its outcome as the people on the UT campus were that afternoon.

| Oct 15, 2016