Newtown

  • 2016


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Positive Reviews 27
Average Rating 3.9/5
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4.5
I dont want closure, Barden insists toward the end, and Newtown doesnt provide it. Av Club
3.8
It doesnt need to be; no documentary this emotionally direct, this emotionally draining, requires bells and whistles. Av Club
3.5
Snyder revisits it on an intimate scale.Sandy Hook was many tragedies ago. Screen Daily
4.5
Thats life in Newtown, and thats what Newtown forces us all to live with. Collider
4.0
Newtown is a remarkable study of a community wrestling with unfathomable grief born out of unimaginable tragedy. Collider
3.2
Its admirable that the film attempts to show such a multi faceted view of the community and the effects of the tragedy, but it ends up feeling deeply .. Paste Magazine
4.4
Its impossible to watch this film and feel no particular way about the killings; its also difficult to imagine someone watching it and thinking, This .. Rogerebert
4.0
See Video: Newtown Director Kim A. Snyder Explores Resilience in Wake of Mass Slaughter The results are wrenching. The Wrap
3.8
This is a movie about people trying to make sense out of the senselessness of what happened. Cs Monitor
2.5
This perceived defilement of Norman Rockwells America is Snyders Newtown in a nutshell. Film Journal
4.0
But the thing that comes through most in the documentary is that the event will never ever leave them or the community, and should not leave us. The Guardian
3.5
But Newtown refutes hopelessness, making its case less with words than with faces its impossible to forget. Time
2.5
But that very impulse as a filmmaker transforms the moment into a cinematic mausoleum, perversely suggesting that cinema can provide us with an experi .. Slant Magazine
4.0
It needed to be; anything less would have been too dismissive of one of the most traumatic American tragedies in recent memory. The New York Times
3.5
In its greatest stretches, Newtown shows this agony and the varying healing processes, however minuscule, in ones individual journey. The Film Stage
4.5
This film is an important historical record, and an important reminder of an event in American history that could have changed everything, that should .. Blogs Indie Wire
4.0
It crystallizes the emotional motif of the documentary, a sensitive and clear eyed portrait of a community shaken to its core and persevering after on .. Hollywood Reporter
3.5
What makes watching Newtown bearable, though, is that it feels like the closest thing to a tribute audiences can pay to the children and adults who di .. The Atlantic
4.0
Some viewers particularly parents may find its unflinching portrait of grief almost too much to bear, but Snyders film deserves to be seen, and acquis .. Variety
4.0
(CNN) Emotionally devastating, Newtown is most notable for what it doesnt include. Cnn
4.2
This is someone elses grief made palpable.Someone elses grief made real. Consequence Of Sound
4.0
Its a spare set up that is easily overlooked, but such self effacing simplicity allows each interviewee to sit on the same level, gracefully evoking t .. Lw Lies
3.5
But Kim A. Snyder is anything but a documentarian whose film would appeal to an audience looking for the lurid. Shockya
3.5
The question is if the world they show us will ever be in the past. Flavor Wire
3.8
Its a wonderful entertainment.Release: Currently touring the country Oscar Chances: Can a documentary ever compete for the animated category The Film Experience
4.5
In her documentary Newtown, Kim A. Snyder manages this Herculean task through present day interviews with many directly affected.It is both uplifting .. Kdhx
3.1
There is a harder hitting, fuller scoped picture to be made delving from all sides into the tragedy which befell Newtown. The Film File
4.0
Its not exactly the most appealing way to spend 85 minutes of your time.Its to Snyders credit then that her film doesnt put its audience through the w .. Junkee
4.0
It will never, ever leave.And if it happened once, it can absolutely happen again. Austin Movie Blog 360



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