Bring Your Own Brigade
CBS | Release Date: August 6, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
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Universal acclaim based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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The New York TimesManohla DargisAug 5, 2021
It’s a tough, smart, impressive movie, and one of its virtues is that Walker, a British transplant to Los Angeles, doesn’t seem to have figured it all out before she started shooting. Read full review
81
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiAug 5, 2021
It’s a film about hubris, selfishness, failed bureaucracies, and a stubborn inability to learn from past mistakes. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAug 6, 2021
Walker’s film might have worked better as a docuseries—one feels its two-hour length—and she has a habit of over-writing some of the narration, but it’s still a detailed piece of work, a surprising angle on a terrifying new reality about living in certain parts of the world, and an inquiry as to whether or not we’re going to do anything about it. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussAug 4, 2021
Mixing in citizens’ harrowing cellphone footage and heartbreaking emergency call recordings, Walker’s teams immerse us in the flaming terror as few features have before. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineMark JenkinsAug 4, 2021
Lucy Walker’s absorbing study of California’s 2018 wildfires consistently goes in illuminating and surprising directions. Read full review
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