The Thin Blue Line

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• El Biffo's rating of the film The Thin Blue Line

  El Biffo

  "Any prosecutor can convict a guilty man, it takes a great prosecutor to convict an innocent man." Must-see for anyone who believes in the American criminal "justice" system.

  February 17, 2015 09:19

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• Duncan Gray's rating of the film The Thin Blue Line

  Duncan Gray

  A masterful documentary. The "dramatic non-fiction" elements (reenactment scenes, music cues) aren't gimmicks to hold attention so much as an acknowledgement of an ever-shifting subjectivity. Even the little details (a bumper sticker, a choice of words in a newspaper headline) add up to a very distinct portrait of the American heartland, with its open spaces, closed communities, and local moral codes.

  April 01, 2015 02:33

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• Jason's rating of the film The Thin Blue Line

  Jason

  I recall having been quite won over by the VHS tape of Morris's game-changer when I was in my early teens, but seeing it now in the luminous Criterion high-def transfer has sent a current through my whole being. This would have to be pretty high on the list of cinematic milestones since 1890-whatever - no film better represents what any good Nietzschean would call a "confluence of forces." Stunningly edited.

  June 09, 2015 21:12

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• Jimmi HRS's rating of the film The Thin Blue Line

  Jimmi HRS

  Errol Morris' expert storytelling style has become a benchmark for good documentaries even today. Definitely one of the best true-crime documentaries, that not only exposed an innocent man but the state of the U.S. law system.

  September 02, 2015 16:35

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• Clayton Wong's rating of the film The Thin Blue Line

  Clayton Wong

  Werner Herzog, in a CBC interview, once said, "Movies don't change the world. Guns change the world." It's a difficult thing for me to argue against in earnest, but I can't help but think of The Thin Blue Line as one of the few absolute exceptions to that quote.

  April 22, 2015 18:10

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• sputnixed's rating of the film The Thin Blue Line

  sputnixed

  it takes a very good documentary to free a wrongly convicted man.

  June 21, 2015 14:42

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• Christopher McQuain's rating of the film The Thin Blue Line

  Christopher McQuain

  ***1/2

  November 18, 2015 10:57

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• H. Paul Moon's rating of the film The Thin Blue Line

  H. Paul Moon

  Film scholars should competently recognize that this, the greatest of Errol Morris' documentaries, evolved the form. It was audacious (and remains infrequent) to pair an unsensationalized documentary with artful cinematography and music, where nothing less than epic cinema is in mind.

  January 27, 2010 22:27

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