White Riot
Film Movement | Release Date (Streaming): October 16, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
80
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Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Austin ChronicleTim StegallOct 21, 2020
Through contemporary and vintage interviews, animation and live footage, White Riot insightfully and vividly details RAR’s reclamation of young Britain’s soul. Read full review
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Original-CinLiam LaceyOct 15, 2020
The film employs a punk-inspired cut-and-paste collages, smashing together footage of police and protestor clashes, rock concerts, television shows and political marches, all annotated with animated handwritten letters, posters, newspaper clippings, and excerpts from RAR’s fanzine, Temporary Hoarding. Read full review
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The Film StageChristopher SchobertOct 15, 2020
What’s most unsettling and provocative about White Riot is how current it feels. Because of this, perhaps White Riot’s greatest achievement is that it takes something that can cause sneers and eye-rolling—committed cultural and political action—and make it feel both necessary and triumphant. Read full review
80
Rolling StoneDavid FearOct 16, 2020
The filmmaker has given us a pitch-perfect, punk-as-fuck portrait of a movement. She’s also reminded us that, regardless of bygone victories, the fight still goes on. Here’s a blueprint for resistance. Read full review
80
Screen DailyDemetrios MatheouOct 15, 2020
Given the recent debates about British identity and the spike in race hatred and racially motivated crime – all as a result of Brexit – the timing of White Riot couldn’t be more apt. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 15, 2020
An excellent brief documentary about a heroic grassroots political movement whose importance reveals itself more clearly in retrospect with every year that passes. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeOct 15, 2020
White Riot is here both to educate and to serve the nostalgists. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Simran HansOct 15, 2020
Rubika Shah’s smart, spirited feature debut is a whistle-stop tour of a DIY uprising. Read full review
80
CineVueChristopher MachellOct 15, 2020
White Riot is a belligerently hopeful film: Shah vividly depicts the insidious violence of racism, but she also renders its futility in the face of community, and of music’s limitless power to unite and strengthen. Read full review
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The New York TimesGlenn KennyOct 15, 2020
One of the many things that White Riot, a documentary about RAR directed by Rubika Shah, brings home is that the world could still use more somethings against racism. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonOct 15, 2020
White Riot is a timely, engaging exercise in social and cultural history, but a wider focus might have given it deeper context and broader marketability. Read full review
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