Flint Town

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 2, 2018
User Score
5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 25 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 25
  3. Negative: 7 out of 25

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  1. CAIN
    Mar 4, 2018
    8
    Great documentary. I guess I wasn't as educated on everything that was going on in Flint because I definitely felt like I took something away from it, unlike some of the other user reviews I'm reading here. Personally, I'm glad they showed both perspectives. I don't feel like it's the director's job to form an opinion for you
  2. trashcanjamz
    Mar 7, 2018
    8
    A candid look inside a police community in a broken city as it deals with the cultural changes brought on by social media backlash in recent years. Several reviewers seem confused about the dissonance at play here. The police's preferred strong/morally righteous identity is seen being challenged in real time by growing insecurity (fear) brought on by actions of other officers that areA candid look inside a police community in a broken city as it deals with the cultural changes brought on by social media backlash in recent years. Several reviewers seem confused about the dissonance at play here. The police's preferred strong/morally righteous identity is seen being challenged in real time by growing insecurity (fear) brought on by actions of other officers that are difficult at times to rationalize. There isn't a lot of apparent messaging from the filmmakers themselves here. This is a documentary after all. It's just a look at the police and the city of Flint as told by themselves.… Expand

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Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Mar 7, 2018
    80
    As intelligent and considerate as it is, the series has a somewhat repetitious feel until the third episode, which jumps ahead to July 2016, six months into the Chief Johnson’s tenure. From here through the end of the story, Flint Town shows how the mentality of American police is shaped by their personal politics, which in turn are shaped by their consistently unpleasant and sometimes fearful experiences on the job, as well as reactionary and sometimes racist attitudes handed down throughout the inception of modern policing.
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  2. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Steve Greene
    Mar 2, 2018
    91
    Flint Town doesn’t offer easy solutions, but it does provide something valuable: a calm, reasoned presentation of the hope for another idea expressed in that speech given in the aftermath of Dallas, “that we are not as divided as we seem.”
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  3. The Detroit News
    Reviewed by: Adam Graham
    Mar 2, 2018
    100
    Flint is a timebomb, and Flint Town is an impressively crafted tick-tock of things going wrong with a place, one after another.
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