Separated

Name: Separated
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 4, 2024
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 75

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Submarine Deluxe | Release Date: October 4, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: Based on NBC Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff’s book, Errol Morris merges explosive interviews with whistleblowing officials and artful narrative vignettes tracing one migrant family’s plight. Together, they reveal that the cruelty at the heart of this policy was its very purpose. Against this backdrop— with hundreds ofBased on NBC Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff’s book, Errol Morris merges explosive interviews with whistleblowing officials and artful narrative vignettes tracing one migrant family’s plight. Together, they reveal that the cruelty at the heart of this policy was its very purpose. Against this backdrop— with hundreds of families still separated years later— audiences can begin to grasp the US government’s role in this unthinkable horror and be warned that we are on the verge of allowing it to happen again.… Expand

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Peter Debruge

Oct 10, 2024

You can feel the tension as Morris untangles the trail of responsibility, drawing a thin, clear line through a real-world conspiracy that resulted in more than 4,000 kids — some no more than infants — being whisked away to facilities far removed from their parents. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Dec 6, 2024

The movie feels less like a prosecutorial document than an autopsy of a government's conscience, pinpointing the time of death. Read full review

IndieWire Christian Blauvelt

Sep 17, 2024

Watching Errol Morris‘s urgent reminder of a documentary — possibly the most enraging film yet made by a director who’s certainly known how to illuminate infuriating topics over the past 45 years — will raise your blood pressure considerably. Read full review

The Daily Beast Barry Levitt

Sep 17, 2024

There’s something damning that comes through watching Separated—the idea that things happened and were allowed to happen because of ambition. To advance in their careers, people were willing to enact laws that would cause unspeakable and irreversible harm. Read full review

Bob Strauss

Nov 20, 2024

Despite any weaknesses, the movie still does what Morris does best. It digs deep into the details of how some terrible idea was mismanaged in execution. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Oct 10, 2024

If Separated is likely too straightforward — too much of a conventional issue documentary — to be remembered as one of Morris’s richest films, it is not as if the director has abandoned his sense of profound absurdity. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Sep 17, 2024

On an intellectual and reporting level, Separated is sturdy and persuasive. Morris is angry, and if you’re watching this movie, chances are good that after 90ish minutes, you’ll be angry, too. What Separated needs, though, is a little touch of the old Errol Morris. Read full review

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