NYC Epicenters 9/11 -> 2021 1/2

Name: NYC Epicenters 9/11 -> 2021 1/2
Genre: Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
Released: August 22, 2021
Rating: 86

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Series Details & Credits

HBO | Release Date: August 22, 2021

Summary: The four-part documentry from Spike Lee looks at not only 9/11 but also recent events that impacted New York City.

Genre(s): Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary

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S1:E4. Episode 4
Air Date: September 11, 2021
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S1:E3. Episode 3
Air Date: September 5, 2021
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S1:E2. Episode 2
Air Date: August 29, 2021

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RogerEbert.com Odie Henderson

Aug 20, 2021

Season 1 Review: Masterful work.... This series is an extremely well-constructed dissertation. There are 200 people interviewed here, some I knew of beforehand and many I did not, and I won’t forget any of them. Lee seamlessly works in musical digressions and movie footage as commentary. ... You may not feel the documentary’s love for its location and its people as much as I do, but you will feel how powerfully that love is rendered. Read full review

The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Aug 20, 2021

Season 1 Review: ‘NYC Epicenters’ can be indulgent at times—and I’m not sure who did the font and color treatments on the chyrons that could use a lot of work—but regardless of some flaws, it’s powerful, insightful, and endlessly captivating once it locks into its groove. Lee’s personal essay is also moving, profound, traumatizing, and triggering as you witness the events of the last few difficult years unfold all over again. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Aug 20, 2021

Season 1 Review: Comprehensive and illuminating. ... Through it all, Spike Lee’s lifelong love affair with New York City and its people is fierce and unwavering. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Aug 19, 2021

Season 1 Review: It made me feel that this was the one 9/11 anniversary reflection I need to watch. I’m not a New Yorker, but NYC Epicenters offers big, emotionally heightened drama, punctuated by big, openhearted humanity and humor. Even in its flaws, it’s Spike Lee at his most Spike Lee — and, perhaps ultimately, at his best. Read full review

Inkoo Kang

Sep 9, 2021

Season 1 Review: There’s a lot to like about this stylish and personal portrait of New York’s heart and vigor. ... There’s as much of Lee as there is of his subjects in “NYC Epicenters,” but the authorial presence adds to the miniseries’ intimacy and sense of transparency. Read full review

James Poniewozik

Sep 9, 2021

Season 1 Review: Lee’s interviews — with hundreds of people, from high elected officials to heavy-equipment operators at ground zero — are warm, emotional, sometimes sparring. ... Lee’s passionate heckler’s breed of New York-ness may be the best suited to this subject. He is loving and critical, impulses that New Yorkers know as synonyms. And his focus on diversity and race helps him find less-heard voices in a much-told story. Read full review

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RatedRex

Dec 7, 2021

Spike Lee captures the feel, the emotion, and the horror of 9-11, its aftermath, and the events of the last 18 months. The style in which Lee uncovers the events is masterfully done. With "4 Little Girls", "When the Levees Broke," and now "NYC Epicenter," Lee reveals himself as anSpike Lee captures the feel, the emotion, and the horror of 9-11, its aftermath, and the events of the last 18 months. The style in which Lee uncovers the events is masterfully done. With "4 Little Girls", "When the Levees Broke," and now "NYC Epicenter," Lee reveals himself as an outstanding documentarian. He is truly one of America's greatest filmmakers.… Expand

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GeraltDaWitcher

Sep 6, 2021

I was interested in watching this because I thought it would dive deep into the music, the extortion of vendors and down right insanity of the event. Instead only 11:05 into this 2 hour documentary you get a female purple haired land whale remarking about how there were to many white boysI was interested in watching this because I thought it would dive deep into the music, the extortion of vendors and down right insanity of the event. Instead only 11:05 into this 2 hour documentary you get a female purple haired land whale remarking about how there were to many white boys there. Then it just continued to spend the entire rest of the documentary complaining about how white people bad. This is nothing but a woke documentary made by SJW's using another historical event to spread their rhetoric and create division.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: August 22, 2021
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  S1:E4. Episode 4
  Air Date: September 11, 2021
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  S1:E3. Episode 3
  Air Date: September 5, 2021
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  S1:E2. Episode 2
  Air Date: August 29, 2021
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  S1:E1. Episode 1
  Air Date: August 22, 2021