Rosewood 1997

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Neither the film's smug white bigots nor its uniformly noble blacks are well served by such oversimplification. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: The need to bear witness against atrocity, to testify that something wicked this way came, is the powerful drive that animates Rosewood, the story of an American tragedy so horrific no one talked about it for more than half a century. Read more

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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: An epic that stands alone in the latter weeks of a dismal movie winter. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: 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. Read more

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: Rosewood is startling, infuriating, painful history played out as a not-very-satisfying, overly ambitious and overlong movie. Read more

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Rhames' gravity and grace, Voight's pinched anguish as he wills himself to do right, the moving work of actors like Don Cheadle and Esther Rolle do much to redeem this film for human if not historical reality. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Although it increasingly succumbs to a tendency toward conventional movie heroics, John Singleton's fourth film tells a story of rare interest and tragedy... Read more

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