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Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
Directed by
Travis Wilkerson
NR
2017
90m
Documentary
6.7
86%
53%
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A documentary murder mystery about the filmmaker's family, set in lower Alabama.
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Cast of Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
Travis Wilkerson
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Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? Ratings & Reviews
Filmmaker Magazine
Vadim Rizov
Wilkerson's anguish as someone desperately aware of his family history and inability to truly rectify same makes a greater impression than any potential momentary catharsis.
Third Coast Review
Steven Prokopy
It's not the most uplifting experience you'll have in the theater this year, but it will be one of the most essential and unforgettable.
Crooked Marquee
Marshall Shaffer
[A] deeply discomfiting examination of white identity and privilege with the power to rattle viewers to their core.
Austin Chronicle
Danielle White
[Travis] Wilkerson has a really keen eye. Not many people wanted to talk, so oftentimes the camera is artfully focused on an imposing tree or a dilapidated building.
Thrillist
Christopher Campbell
Not since Ross McElwee's Sherman's March has there been such a contemplative and resonating look at the South through a subjective documentary lens.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
"Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?" is at its sharpest and most necessary when Wilkerson interrogates his personal connection to the past.
The Daily Beast
Karen Han
It's the kind of honesty and ownership that's rarely seen in film, let alone in real life.
Film Journal International
Budd Wilkins
Wilkerson's ruminative documentary brings home the filmmaker's preoccupation with the confluence of individual and institutional violence in an exceptionally personal manner.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
It's hard to shake the idea that the 'live documentary' approach isn't a little more satisfying for this material, but it's impossible to deny the power of much of what's on display here.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
For someone so gloomily aware of his own privilege, Wilkerson spends a lot of the film playing dumb and speculating-a writer's trick for giving shape to a piece with a thesis and no conclusion.
NPR
Scott Tobias
Through this personal journey, Wilkerson accesses America's heart of darkness.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
"Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?" is a passionately political film, aflame with rage in spite of its director's measured, ruminative tone of voice. It is also a horror movie, full of specters and silences and a terror that is pervasive ...
The Film Stage
Jonah Jeng
When the repressed past gains sudden and violent visibility in the present, the genre that's evoked is horror, and one of the film's greatest strengths is the way it leans into this association.
Slant Magazine
Carson Lund
In directly requesting the audience's trust, Travis Wilkerson initiates a not-particularly-inviting proposition for the viewer, and specifically the white American viewer.
The Nation
Stuart Klawans
A different filmmaker might have set about structuring his story as a personal journey into his family's history. Wilkerson resists the impulse..he'd narrow the focus of the film, when what he wants is to stretch it to the horizon.
Paste Magazine
Tim Grierson
Though sometimes terribly overwrought... the performance is captivating...
Variety
Jay Weissberg
Makes fitful attempts to contextualize the shooting within the broader murderous history of American racism, but ultimately is far more interested in expunging the director's own sense of inherited taint.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
It's an essentially cinematic experience.
Artforum
Amy Taubin
How is it that some people escape the racism and misogyny in which they are raised and some cling to it as their reason for existence? Wilkerson doesn't offer an answer. But raising the question is more than enough.
Village Voice
Bilge Ebiri
It's hard not to experience Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? and not get shivers up your spine - from fear, from anger, and from the beauty of Wilkerson's filmmaking.
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