Synopsis
A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
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Cast
- John BoyegaMelvin Dismukes
- Will PoulterPhilip Krauss
- Anthony MackieGreene
- Algee SmithLarry Reed
- Hannah MurrayJulie Ann
- Jason MitchellCarl Cooper
- Malcolm David KelleyMichael Clark
- Jack ReynorDemens
- Ben O'TooleFlynn
- Jacob LatimoreFred Temple
Recommendations
- 100
Variety
Bigelow, working from a script by her regular collaborator Mark Boal (it’s their first film since “Zero Dark Thirty”), has created a turbulent, live-wire panorama of race in America that feels like it’s all unfolding in the moment, and that’s its power. We’re not watching tidy, well-meaning lessons — we’re watching people driven, by an impossible situation, to act out who they really are. - 100
Chicago Sun-Times
Arriving in theaters almost exactly 50 years since the Detroit riots of late July 1967, Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit is a searing, pulse-pounding, shocking and deeply effective dramatic interpretation of events in and around the Algiers Motel. - 98
TheWrap
Detroit has a vital sense of authenticity, rooted as it is in history, conveyed via Bigelow’s meticulously crafted cinema vérité style that, essentially, thrusts the viewer into the tense events. She is an expert at managing suspense and deftly blending sensitivity with a journalistic sense of details. - 91
Entertainment Weekly
A sincere effort to illuminate a singularly dark chapter in history — and a stark reminder of exactly what gets lost when human beings fail to take care of their own. - 90
New York Daily News
This movie will spark debate, even with an end title card that reminds audiences of the concept of dramatic license. But as a movie, and not a court document, it is extraordinary. - 88
Rolling Stone
It's a hardcore masterpiece that digs into our violent past to hold up a dark mirror to the systemic racism that still rages in the here and now. - 80
Screen Daily
This gritty, gripping movie starts slowly but builds in intensity, culminating in sorrow and raw nerves. - 75
IndieWire
Detroit is extremely powerful when its wandering eye is trained on the moment at hand, when it’s performing a bracingly direct meditation on white violence and black fear. The film only runs into trouble when it clumsily attempts to contextualize the events of its horrific second act.
