Silver Dollar Road
Release Date: October 13, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
RogerEbert.comRobert DanielsSep 12, 2023
While this documentary doesn’t rise to the level of his masterwork “Exterminate All the Brutes,” the pain and anger, resolve, and courage that Peck captures in Silver Dollar Road make it a complex, intense document of the persistence of Black existence in a world hell-bent on erasure. Read full review
82
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpOct 23, 2023
Some documentaries would be better off as written journalism. Silver Dollar Road complements Presser’s work with Peck’s erudition and humane touch. Read full review
80
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldOct 19, 2023
Amid the looming threats to a cherished home, Peck’s accomplishment is to let the Reels family own their emotional space. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleOct 15, 2023
If your recipe for outrage needs a villainous presence, Peck isn’t interested in stoking it that way, and shouldn’t need to. That’s not the oxygen Silver Dollar Road, building off a 2019 ProPublica article by Lizzie Presser, wants to breathe. Rather, it’s the warmth, togetherness and persistence of a family fighting a ruthlessly unfair system, holding onto each other as forces move to expel them. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeOct 15, 2023
Peck’s film – which, with its themes of race and failures of American justice, has a kinship with Ava DuVernay’s 13th and Garrett Bradley’s Time – is both infuriating and also unexpectedly uplifting in its celebration of family unity. Read full review
60
The Daily BeastNick SchagerOct 19, 2023
When it comes to its central legal struggle, though, it leaves out so many crucial details that it cuts itself off at the knees. Read full review
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