The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
| Release Date: November 4, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
86
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Universal acclaim based on 5 Critic Reviews
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90
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlNov 3, 2016
It's rare that a film this outraged is also this calm. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenNov 3, 2016
Provocative and often fascinating, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is an unsentimental look at the ways prisons shape life outside their walls, in places as disparate as Appalachia and Midtown Manhattan. Read full review
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The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisNov 3, 2016
Ms. Story’s unconventional approach provokes responses that a traditional facts-and-figures discussion might not. Yet the film’s formal abstraction, far from creating emotional distance, is unexpectedly moving. Read full review
80
VarietyScott TobiasNov 3, 2016
Story has made a potent political film without having to spray viewers with a fusillade of alarming numbers to back it up. She trusts viewers to intuit their way through fascinating anecdotes and detours that gain a cumulative power, one that data alone cannot possibly express. Read full review
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Slant MagazineChuck BowenNov 3, 2016
The plaintive plain-spokenness of the interviewees, the way they matter-of-factly speak of atrocity, is transcendent and intensely haunting. Read full review
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