13th documentary movie review

The film builds its case piece by shattering piece, inspiring levels of shock and outrage that stun the viewer, leaving one shaken and disturbed before closing out on a visual note of hope designed to keep us on the hook as advocates for change. Advertisement. "13th" begins with an alarming statistic: One out of four African-American males ...

NYT Critic's Pick. Directed by Ava DuVernay. Documentary, Crime, History. 1h 40m. By Manohla Dargis. Sept. 29, 2016. Powerful, infuriating and at times overwhelming, Ava DuVernay's documentary ...

In "13th," Ava Duvernay explores a loophole, which deems a form of slavery acceptable in the legal form of criminal punishment. Duvernay's documentary takes a well-informed look at this loophole

Last modified on Mon 8 Apr 2019 07.39 EDT. T here is something bracing, even exciting, about the intellectual rigour that Ava DuVernay brings to this documentary about the prison system and the ...

Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/09/24 Full Review Jojo P We watched this movie in my Social Justice class at Philander Smith University, and the film was very enlightening film to ...

Parents need to know that 13th is a powerful documentary that addresses racial issues confronting America in 2016. In a time of polarized attitudes about mass incarceration, brutality, and the explosion of for-profit prisons and their affiliates, director Ava DuVernay interviews social activists, academics,….

Which is what "13th," Ava DuVernay's smart, powerful and disturbing documentary, proceeds to make us do. As persuasively argued as it is angry, and it is very angry, "13th" follows that ...

Ava DuVernay 's " 13TH " is the first documentary ever to be selected as the opening-night film of The New York Film Festival. (It premieres at Lincoln Center on Sept. 30.) That lends a ...

13th: Directed by Ava DuVernay. With Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker, Dolores Canales. An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 1, 2021. David Bax Battleship Pretension. 13th will fill your mouth with bitter anger but, if there's a way forward, it's one a filmmaker like DuVernay can ...

The Selma director's fiercely radical Netflix documentary argues that America's 13th constitutional amendment perpetuated a link between prison and slavery Peter Bradshaw Thu 6 Oct 2016 17.45 ...

Watch Pete Hammond's video review of 13th, Ava DuVernay's stunning and enlightening Netflix documentary about African-Americans and U.S. prison system

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay's new documentary, available to stream this Friday via Netflix, is called 13th, as in the 13th amendment, the one that formally abolished slavery in the United States, and ...

Ava DuVernay's new film takes its name from the amendment that abolished slavery, but allowed for prisoner servitude. Critic John Powers says 13th puts forth a searing interpretation of U.S. history.

Her film goes by in a riveting rush, but astonishes in every frame with its ferocity and feeling. The archival footage is horrific, from a clip from D.W. Griffith's 1915 race-demonizing, rape ...

13th. Is an Essential, If Imperfect, Look at Race Relations and Incarceration. The New York Film Festival has opened for the first time in its 54-year history with a documentary, 13th, directed by ...

Ava DuVernay's full-to-bursting documentary "13th" recently opened the New York Film Festival (the first documentary to do so) and it's now streaming on Netflix. You cannot …

13th is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Ava DuVernay. The film explores the prison-industrial complex, and the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States"; [3] it is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1865, which abolished slavery throughout the ...

With these current events about racial injustice toward Black people, the term "systemic racism" has seen an exponential increase in usage. Director Ava DuVernay exemplifies what exactly this term has meant for the black community throughout American history in her documentary film "13th.". With all of the events that are occurring now ...

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay talks about her new documentary, 13TH, which explores the history of race and the criminal justice system in the United States. The film's title refers to the 13th Amendment.

The title of Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States." The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American ...

7/10. Interesting points and questions, but incomplete. demented_peruvian 30 December 2016. It appears that all reviews of this documentary are in turn reviewed by where people stand politically. I'll side-step that by analyzing this as a film lover who is multi-ethnic and has studied criminology and has worked for many years in the behavioral ...

Thanks Dan for this great review. I came away from this movie noting that the subject of prison slavery was effectively overlooked. The film's title "The 13th" had me hopeful. Sadly, it comes off to the informed as more disinformation, and to all the masses who conveniently continue to claim ignorance of all things mass incarceration ...

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