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Crown Heights
Directed by
Matt Ruskin
R
2017
1h 36m
Drama
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Biography
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6.7
78%
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When Colin Warner is wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devotes his life to proving Colin's innocence.
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Cast of Crown Heights
LaKeith Stanfield
Colin Warner
Nnamdi Asomugha
Carl King
Natalie Paul
Antoinette
Bill Camp
William Robedee
Nestor Carbonell
Bruce Regenstreich
Amari Cheatom
Leon Grant
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Sampson
Sarah Goldberg
Shirley Robedee
Josh Pais
District Attorney Maffeo
Ron Canada
Judge Marcy
Zach Grenier
Detective Cassel
Yul Vazquez
Commissioner Rafello
Adriane Lenox
Grace
Skylan Brooks
Thomas
Luke Forbes
Anthony Gibson
Deovana Lauderdale
Bri
Ras Enoch McCurdie
Hassan Wilton
Noah Lee Margetts
Investigator O'Connor
Brian Tyree Henry
Massup
Marsha Stephanie Blake
Briana
Shana Solomon
Officer Duffy
Ramon Fernandez
Fernando
Cory Saint-Laurent
Marvin Grant
Cherelle Cargill
Diane Cardwell
Crown Heights Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
Morally, there's black here, there's also white, but the prevailing color is bureaucratic gray. Bringing that to the screen and making it work is an accomplishment.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Lakeith Stanfield delivers a breakout performance in "Crown Heights," a dramatized true story of miscarried justice that he anchors with restrained stillness and sensitivity.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
"Crown Heights" has some narrative shortcomings. But the filmmakers respect the subject matter too much to ever take the easy way out.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
Stanfield deftly balances rage and resignation, and Asomugha is impressive as a crusader who refuses to give up.
Seattle Times
Soren Andersen
Stanfield, in a performance of quiet power, fully inhabits Warner's agony at the injustice that is being done to him.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
"Crown Heights" plows forward, steely in its resolve, and forgoes the emotional fireworks in favor of subdued, straightforward storytelling.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
The sole fresh twist, one that should have been more than enough to drive the show - one friend dedicating his life to exonerating the other - is repeatedly undermined by their unequal presentation.
Arizona Republic
Barbara VanDenburgh
"Crown Heights" is soul-shaking only in the abstract. In execution, it's deathly dull.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
In his second narrative feature directorial effort, Ruskin handles it smoothly and with an eye toward pace, even at the expense of the honest, offhanded moments that can make a galling true crime story such as this come alive on the screen.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
Crown Heights is a pretty good movie about a great subject: the sheer backbreaking labor necessary to force the system to even acknowledge a terrible injustice, much less make it right.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Strong central performances make this harrowing chronicle a gripping tale.
amNewYork
Jordan Hoffman
You can't tell yourself it's just a movie.
Andscape
Soraya Nadia McDonald
The film just isn't biting enough to make Warner a mascot for the race-based injustice that pervades the American criminal justice system.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The two men's relationship, and others in the film, might have been explored in greater depth, but Ruskin rightly keeps his focus on the judicial system as it fails Warner again and again.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
An uncaring system putting blameless men behind bars has been a cinematic staple as far back as Alfred Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man" and likely further. But few examples have been as effective as the fact-based "Crown Heights."
Shadow and Act
Austin Williams
For a story engineered with such subtlety, reigned by a quiet and thoughtful performance from Lakeith Stanfield, Crown Heights is incredibly forceful in delivery.
Associated Press
Jake Coyle
Yet the film, full of good intentions and compelling performers, fails to find a dramatic structure for its considerable timespan.
Village Voice
Danny King
Most of Crown Heights ... suffers from structural confusion.
Hello Beautiful
Candice Frederick
A story that is as heartbreaking as it is inspiring, Crown Heights is an especially poignant film in today's times that succeeds in illuminating a perspective that is often overlooked.
Tribune News Service
Rick Bentley
Stanfield's performance is the solid foundation for the film.
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