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Both a sobering look at a true crime story and a scathing indictment of the American justice system, West of Memphis is a real-life horror story told with fury and compassion.
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It's not a new story, true, but "West of Memphis" makes it both extremely personal and universally painful. Apr 5, 2013 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
It's not a new story, true, but "West of Memphis" makes it both extremely personal and universally painful.
Tom Long
We feel like we're watching an overlong true-crime television episode and not a movie. Mar 21, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
We feel like we're watching an overlong true-crime television episode and not a movie.
Joe Williams
A real-life horror story, made no less shocking by the familiarity of its early scenes. Mar 14, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4
A real-life horror story, made no less shocking by the familiarity of its early scenes.
Moira MacDonald
While the "Paradise Lost" films captured events as they unfolded in the heat of battle, "West of Memphis" has the luxury of at least partial closure. Mar 14, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
While the "Paradise Lost" films captured events as they unfolded in the heat of battle, "West of Memphis" has the luxury of at least partial closure.
Ty Burr
And justice for all? Hardly. Feb 21, 2013 | Rating: 3/4
And justice for all? Hardly.
Rene Rodriguez
It tells the story of a terrible crime compounded by a grave injustice that's been remedied, but only in part, so it's impossible to have a single or simple response to the movie. Feb 8, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It tells the story of a terrible crime compounded by a grave injustice that's been remedied, but only in part, so it's impossible to have a single or simple response to the movie.
Walter V. Addiego
Sadly hindered by some questionable finger-pointing and an inappropriately celebratory ending... But West of Memphis is still commendable in its scope and passion. Feb 6, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Sadly hindered by some questionable finger-pointing and an inappropriately celebratory ending... But West of Memphis is still commendable in its scope and passion.
Craig Williams
West of Memphis aims to take a more established and polished cinematic approach to the material, detailing the entire story. Aug 23, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
West of Memphis aims to take a more established and polished cinematic approach to the material, detailing the entire story.
Joseph Walsh
A documentary that distills 19 years of a witch hunt, a grass roots movement, lost leads, confusion, countless appeals, and hope into one remarkable movie that is hellbent on setting the record straight. Aug 9, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A documentary that distills 19 years of a witch hunt, a grass roots movement, lost leads, confusion, countless appeals, and hope into one remarkable movie that is hellbent on setting the record straight.
Eric Melin
It effectively condenses what took the 'Paradise Lost' films nearly eight hours to reveal into a tight, snappy 149 minutes that affords you everything you need to know about the West Memphis Three. May 13, 2013 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
It effectively condenses what took the 'Paradise Lost' films nearly eight hours to reveal into a tight, snappy 149 minutes that affords you everything you need to know about the West Memphis Three.
Al Alexander
It's another case where, instead of a prosecution having to prove a case, a defendant has to choose the lesser of two evils. "This happens all the time," defendant Damien Echols says of the whole process, and he's right. May 13, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's another case where, instead of a prosecution having to prove a case, a defendant has to choose the lesser of two evils. "This happens all the time," defendant Damien Echols says of the whole process, and he's right.
Rob Thomas
A sobering look at how the wheels of justice can be -- and are -- manipulated by political expediency and a small town's tendrils of the old boy network Apr 4, 2013 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
A sobering look at how the wheels of justice can be -- and are -- manipulated by political expediency and a small town's tendrils of the old boy network
Ken Hanke
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