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This shows the hatred that was ther in the heart of people that was ignorant. God forbid this to happen again in my life time.

August 15,2010
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Deliberately paced at the outset, the film slowly establishes a sense of hatred that makes the violent explosion of the film's second half as plausible and inevitable as the laws of physics.Full Review

Keith Phipps
The Onion (A.V. Club)

But if the movie were simply the story of this event, it would be no more than a sad record. What makes it more is the way it shows how racism breeds and feeds, and is taught by father to son.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

Despite an occasional narrative hiccup, this is a rich and moving motion picture.Full Review

James Berardinelli
ReelViews

As the village is destroyed, its people humiliated, hunted down, and murdered, Singleton brings the images and underlying psychological truths of American racial violence to the screen with a brute dramatic force that few directors have matched.Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

Though Hollywood hyperbolizes the Gregory Poirier script -- Mann is a fictional character -- John Singleton ("Boyz N the Hood") directs the film with riveting urgency.Full Review

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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