Detroit: Study of a dark moment in US history
A courageous approach, but this queasy, claustrophobic sequence is missing something essential
Cinema
Detroit: Directed by Katherine Bigelow, Nationwide, 15A, Rating: ***
American Made: Directed by Doug Liman, Nationwide, 15A, Rating: ***
The recent violent demonstration by far-right white supremacists in Charlottesville casts Kathryn Bigelow’s period drama Detroit in a new light. Bigelow’s account of the five-day riot that engulfed the American city in July 1967 is an incendiary portrait of racism and institutional violence that poses urgent questions for today’s US, speaking to the ...
