Detroit

R16
2017
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143 mins
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Crime drama from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) set against the backdrop of the 1967 Detroit riots. Stars... More

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Detroit | Ratings & Reviews

"Kathryn Bigelow's latest is the most disturbing and difficult watch of 2017, and it might just be the year's most important film too. It's a masterful tour de force in high tension filmmaking, anchored by a home-invasion horror style second act that is absolutely excruciating. The brutal terrorising of black civilians by white cops in a Detroit motel is portrayed with a clinical realism, maximising the oppression without wallowing in the violence. That it all actually happened means you can't find solace in reminding yourself it's only a movie."

Flicks, Daniel RutledgeFlicks

"What Bigelow does - incomparably - is put us in that room with those people at that moment. She induces a feeling of powerlessness that's beyond our capacity to imagine on our own, and she keeps it going..."

VultureVulture

"A drama as powerful as it is timely."

VarietyVariety

"Expect Bigelow's deep-cutting drama to be part of the conversation come awards season."

Total FilmTotal Film

"The standoff at the Algiers Motel has entered legend (if not widely known history) as a notorious incident of interrogatory injustice. Bigelow makes it the centrepiece of Detroit and, simply put, has crafted her most harrowing piece of filmmaking."

Time OutTime Out

"The film's struggle against simplification - against the sentimentality, wishful thinking and outright denial that defines most Hollywood considerations of America's racial past - is palpable, almost heroic, even if it is not always successful."

The New York TimesThe New York Times

"Detroit's searing strength lies in its mid-section execution, an interlude of pure hatred and abuse of power..."

NewsroomNewsroom

"Tense, excruciating and entirely necessary..."

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times

"Intense and physically powerful in the way it conveys its atrocious events, the film nonetheless remains short on complexity, as if it were enough simply to provoke and outrage the audience. It's a grim tale with no catharsis."

Hollywood ReporterHollywood Reporter

"A gruelling, nightmarish, ferociously vivid riot epic that recreates one of the darkest chapters in American history. Unflinching, unmissable and terrifyingly pertinent."

Empire MagazineEmpire Magazine

Detroit | Details

Rating
R16, Violence, cruelty & offensive language
Runtime
143
Genre
Drama, Thriller
Country of origin
USA