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A disappointing treatment of an important urban failure. Repetitive. ******* got deeper into reasons for failure.
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New York Post
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth doesn't offer easy conclusions. Full Review
Eric Hynes
Time Out New York
Armed with archival footage and wrenching interviews, filmmaker Chad Freidrichs revisits one of our nation's darkest hours - and emerges with a scrupulous, revelatory consideration of the varied factors that turned a worthy plan into a horrific, state-sanctioned nightmare for a generation of working-class African-Americans. Full Review
Ernest Hardy
Village Voice
What gives the film its human dimension are the conflicting memories of former residents. Full Review
Joseph Jon Lanthier
Slant Magazine
The film ends on a note of courage, and a call-to-action that we "remember," naturally, but we can't completely buy it: What Freidrichs has accomplished is a portrait of unknowability. Full Review
Rachel Saltz
The New York Times
This history is too recent to seem dry, and the film gets an added emotional punch from interviews with former tenants, whose memories mix fondness with anger and loss. Full Review
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