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The Sentence
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The 15-year-old girl, Sandi, was charged with conspiracy to commit numerous crimes committed by her ex-boyfriend. Her brother Roddy appears to be dealing with the tragedy in order to release her in the clemency plans set up by the Obama administration. Roddy and his family are trying to work again to free Cindy in the seemingly nightmare affair.
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Solzy at the Movies
October 10, 2018 ...The Sentence is one of the most powerful documentaries of 2018.
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Paste Magazine
October 15, 2018 This is not that film. It's an intimate, small-scale portrait of how a profoundly unintelligent policy impacted one family.
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Film Journal International
October 10, 2018 Indicts the mandatory minimum-sentence system not through accumulating facts but by showing its traumatic toll on [the director's] family.
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Los Angeles Times
October 11, 2018 What unnecessary imprisonment does to families is often written about in abstract terms, but to see what it did to one specific family runs an emotional gamut that the patience of this heroically committed filmmaker does full justice to.
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Hollywood Reporter
January 21, 2018 The Sentence is so committed to its concentration on emotion and heart that it's difficult not to get carried away and it feels almost churlish to quibble with the intellectual responses it barely aspires to.
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Variety
August 01, 2018 The subject is inherently engrossing, but a better documentary could (and probably will) be made about it.
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The Daily Beast
October 15, 2018 We know that the camera isn't being held by a stranger but a beloved uncle, which imbues each exchange with not only affection but also an irreproducible immediacy.
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New York Times
October 11, 2018 By making you feel deeply for his sister and her children, Valdez has fashioned his film to make the lapses less glaring.
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RogerEbert.com
October 12, 2018 The Sentence is the beginning of a conversation that needs to continue.
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L.A. Weekly
October 10, 2018 Here's a true surprise in 2018: a documentary about an American injustice that will likely leave you, by its end, blubbering tears of relieved joy.
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Diario La Estrella (Fort Worth, TX)
October 15, 2018 At some point during the documentary, the story of a family tragedy begins to find its activism tone, and Rudy's work to document Cindy's life... begins to be drawn as a universal story, which can change lives. [Full review in Spanish]
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