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Positive:
6
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Critic Reviews
RogerEbert.comAug 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.
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The PlaylistAug 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.
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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.
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Sep 9, 2021
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.
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