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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Featurette

Movie Review: #DetroitMovie One of the most important films you'll ever see.

One of the most important films you'll ever see. RAMA is back. Even if Kathryn Bigelow’s 3Detroit movie may not purposely intend on pointing out the continued failures of our justice system with regards to police crime in today’s world, it succeeds in doing exactly that. This is a raw and disturbing depiction of an even more disturbing true story that for one reason or another had been stuck as some kind of historical footnote for the past fifty years but it is timely as ever and it’s one of the most important films you’ll ever see. The director who gave us “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty” proves once again, with “Detroit,” that she is not one to run away from controversial subject matter. Written by her frequent collaborator, Mark Boal, “Detroit” is set during the most terrifying civil unrest that rocked the iconic motor city in the summer of 1967. The story zooms in on the Algiers Motel incident involving the death of three black men and the brutal beatings of n