Detroit

Director Kathryn Bigelow, in her first film since 'Zero Dark Thirty,' dramatizes an incident of police terrorism at the heart of the 1967 Detroit riot, creating a drama as powerful as it is timely.

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This searing historical drama traces the roots — and the devastating aftermath — of the city’s 1967 unrest.

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Detroit is a brutal, visceral lesson in American history.

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It's been 50 years since the Detroit riots, but healing is hard to come by.

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Oscar-winning filmmaker turns the Motor City's 1967 riot into devastating case study of police brutality, misjustice and need for healing.

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Amid the erupting 1967 Detroit riots, John Boyega plays a security guard drawn in to a grotesque showdown with racist cops at the Algiers Motel.

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Detroit, Michigan, 1967. In the heat of the 12th Street uprising, a task-force raids The Algiers Motel searching for a sniper. When they fail to find him, the guests are subjected to a horrifying storm of race-hate and violence.

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Kathryn Bigelow takes aim at racism and police brutality in the scattershot Detroit.

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In a time when it feels like basic civil rights are under attack by the day, movies like “Detroit” feel more vital and necessary than ever.

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Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film, and a documentary about Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting of Michael Brown.

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This terrifying portrait of the 1967 Detroit rebellion is almost as chaotic as the events it depicts.

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Kathryn Bigelow's latest effort is a docudrama about the 1967 Detroit riots, focusing on a specific incident of police violence against a group of black men at a hotel.

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The film’s struggle against simplification — against the sentimentality, wishful thinking and outright denial that defines most Hollywood considerations of America’s racial past — is palpable, almost heroic, even if it is not always successful.

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Kathryn Bigelow's new docudrama Detroit emphasizes immediacy and brutality over historical context.

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Kathryn Bigelow shoots the '67 war at home.

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Kathryn Bigelow hyper-realistically covers her ensemble’s actions in the manner of a somber disaster film.

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Like the stuttered momentum of race relations throughout American history, Detroit bounds with both hopeful energy and destructive steps backward.

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Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit tells a story that needs to be told, one adapted from real-life events that happened 50 years ago but still have a piercing resonance today.

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Watching "Detroit," the latest film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and penned by Mark Boal, I hit a breaking point I didn’t realize I had. I was disturbed so deeply by what I witnessed that I left the theater afterward in tears.

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Kathryn Bigelo has made something horrifying, painful and rage-fueled in Detroit, but this focus on genre aspects undercuts a story meant for larger meanings in the end.

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