Detroit

Kathryn Bigelow directs Detroit, concerning the events of the Algiers Motel that punctuated the 1967 riots in Detroit.  It's an ambitious undertaking on the 50th anniversary of one of the most tragic events in U.S. history.  Bigelow and the talented cast of John Boyega, Will Poulter, and Anthony Mackie turn it into a very intense and watchable hard-boiled drama, carefully crafted with well placed documentary footage.  As a native Detroiter and hearing in some fashion about the 67 riots all my life, I was happy to have a movie made about events.  However, the significance of those events is hard to encompass in just one film, but the parallels to our recent history in dealing with police brutality and killings, racial profiling, and the militarization of the police should not be lost on anyone.