Fruitvale Station

Name: Fruitvale Station
Director: Ryan Coogler
Released: 2013

Ryan Coogler

2013

Synopsis

Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.

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New York Magazine (Vulture)
Fruitvale Station will rock your world — and, if the life of Oscar Grant means anything, compel you to work to change it.
90
Film.com
Fruitvale is outstanding, a telling portrait and testament to the life of one man and the complicated relationships to race and class that still exist within America today.
83
IndieWire
Fruitvale is largely sustained by Jordan's career-making performance and the way Coogler uses it to analyze his subject...It's a fascinating investigation into the contrast between media perception and intimate truths.
80
The Hollywood Reporter
As Oscar, Jordan at moments gives off vibes of a very young Denzel Washington in the way he combines gentleness and toughness; he effortlessly draws the viewer in toward him.
80
The Guardian
The robust acting and sharp sense of the Bay Area milieu glides us nicely over the film's few soft patches.
75
The Playlist
Fruitvale Station is impressive for a debut, and displays the unimpeachable intent to involve us all in the human story behind a headline. And it certainly displays great promise from its director and accomplished performances from its cast.
75
Observer
Fruitvale Station lacks the same global impact as Milk, but it’s still a harrowing film worth seeing and honoring for boldness and insight. It’s one of the most sobering must-see movies of the summer.
63
Slant Magazine
Sensitively performed and laced with some forceful quotidian grit, the film evades the larger questions behind a scandalous shooting death.

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