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It's a vivid and gripping documentary (although, at two hours, somewhat longer than it needs to be), a grave indictment of a city and a system at the breaking point. Apr 17, 2013 | Full Review…
It's a vivid and gripping documentary (although, at two hours, somewhat longer than it needs to be), a grave indictment of a city and a system at the breaking point.
David Hiltbrand
Expect your blood pressure to rise during The Central Park Five. Dec 24, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Expect your blood pressure to rise during The Central Park Five.
Linda Barnard
The doc is rife with smart or wrenching or shameful moments. The fresh interviews with the accused, now men, are invaluable. Dec 21, 2012 | Full Review…
The doc is rife with smart or wrenching or shameful moments. The fresh interviews with the accused, now men, are invaluable.
Lisa Kennedy
As grim a portrait of the criminal justice system as can be imagined. Dec 14, 2012 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
As grim a portrait of the criminal justice system as can be imagined.
Tom Long
How could this second crime have occurred? The film asks that question but only partly answers it, and in the process it raises an even more troubling one. Dec 14, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
How could this second crime have occurred? The film asks that question but only partly answers it, and in the process it raises an even more troubling one.
Michael O'Sullivan
"The Central Park Five" is a sobering indictment of racism and vigilante justice, yet it is constrained by a PBS-style deference to the very system it critiques. Dec 13, 2012 | Full Review…
"The Central Park Five" is a sobering indictment of racism and vigilante justice, yet it is constrained by a PBS-style deference to the very system it critiques.
Joe Williams
If The Central Park Five didn't use most of its runtime on historians, reporters and people peripheral to the case, it could have gone from run-of-the-mill procedural to gut-punch of injustice. Nov 13, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
If The Central Park Five didn't use most of its runtime on historians, reporters and people peripheral to the case, it could have gone from run-of-the-mill procedural to gut-punch of injustice.
David Harris
The Central Park Five dissects the political and social tension that turned an already shocking series of events into one of the most racially charged moments in New York City history. Nov 28, 2018 | Full Review…
The Central Park Five dissects the political and social tension that turned an already shocking series of events into one of the most racially charged moments in New York City history.
Thrillist Entertainment Staff
The Central Park Five is a vivid, involving documentary. The story it tells is a wrenching one, but it never succumbs to hyperbole or sensationalism. May 14, 2018 | Full Review…
The Central Park Five is a vivid, involving documentary. The story it tells is a wrenching one, but it never succumbs to hyperbole or sensationalism.
David Bianculli
If hindsight is 20/20, the amount of perspective the film's talking heads provide practically amounts to a telephoto lens. It provides a comprehensive and detailed telling of a long-term, complicated series of events. Jun 27, 2017 | Full Review…
If hindsight is 20/20, the amount of perspective the film's talking heads provide practically amounts to a telephoto lens. It provides a comprehensive and detailed telling of a long-term, complicated series of events.
Abby Olcese
A searing, purposeful documentary -- a 21st century cautionary tale. Nov 9, 2016 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A searing, purposeful documentary -- a 21st century cautionary tale.
Dwight Brown
It's more like an interesting, in-depth article in The New Yorker than a movie. Jul 27, 2013 | Full Review…
It's more like an interesting, in-depth article in The New Yorker than a movie.
Eric D. Snider
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