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Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
Directed by
John Ridley
TV-MA
2017
2h 24m
Documentary
,
History
7.8
100%
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An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.
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Cast of Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
Jung Hui Lee
Herself
Rodney King
Himself (archive footage)
Daryl Gates
Himself (archive footage)
Tom Bradley
Himself (archive footage)
Magic Johnson
Himself (archive footage)
Soon Ja Du
Herself (archive footage)
John Ridley
Director / Writer
Jeanmarie Condon
Producer
Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 Ratings & Reviews
Variety
Sonia Saraiya
And yet there are moments in Let It Fall that feel like a significant reframing of the riots, both in terms of what actually happened and in terms of who's really to blame.
Thrillist
Christopher Campbell
Ridley is thorough as he connects the dots while also getting some incredible interview material.
The Film Experience
Glenn Dunks
...the matter-of-fact way that Ridley allows witnesses to the riots detail their personal stories allowed for his film to reach something somewhere in the middle between catharsis and devastation.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
Let It Fall runs to nearly two and a half hours but feels much shorter, packing in a lot of information yet moving at a rapid pace.
Mark Leeper's Reviews
Mark R. Leeper
LET IT FALL: 1982-1992 stands with last year's O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA and I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO as a powerful retrospective on the dynamics of United States race relations.
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
This long documentary (two hours, 24 minutes) takes us back 10 years before the L.A. riots and shows us events which led up to them. The film pays particular attention to the relationships between police, blacks and the Korean American communities.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
An essential documentary that covers the heightened racial tensions in LA from 1982-1992.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
[Let it Fall] accomplishes what straightforward nonfiction narrative can do in the best of circumstance.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
What makes the astoundingly edited "Let It Fall" so powerful is that it's an oral history, told through many angles: residents, police officers, victims, families of the victims, witnesses, jurors and a host of others.
Chicago Reader
Leah Pickett
Not wasting a minute of its two-and-a-half-hour running time, this remarkable documentary echoes O.J: Made in America by examining the Los Angeles riots.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
'Let It Fall''s construction is shrewd: it moves fast from the verdict into the riot, far faster than the other films, but effectively dramatizes the speed with which the conflict escalated.
The Nation
Stuart Klawans
It's like looking into the heart of all those single flames that made the conflagration.
Common Sense Media
S. Jhoanna Robledo
Wrenching, must-see docu probes racial violence in L.A.
TheWrap
Robert Abele
Laying a groundwork of personal testimony and archival assemblage that tells the story of what Ridley calls "the uprising," there's directness when needed, detail (often horrific) when appropriate, and complexity where least expected.
Reel Talk Online
Candice Frederick
Juxtaposing footage of the actual events with the narrative of each of their storytellers, Let It Fall does its part to maintain a sense of urgency around a narrative that still needs to be discussed, interrogated, and accounted for.
Film Journal International
André Hereford
Searing images and interviews drive John Ridley's cogent documentary reconstruction of how escalating tensions finally erupted in all-out chaos on the streets of L.A.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Teeming with acts both heroic and reprehensible, John Ridley's wrenchingly humane documentary, "Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992," reveals the Los Angeles riots as the almost inevitable culmination of a decade of heightening racial tensions.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
The strength of "Let It Fall" is in its remarkable contemporary interviews, compelling both for the people recorded and the way the conversations are allowed to unfold.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
These Angelenos discovered what they and their neighbors were capable of. Ridley's patient, humane approach allows us, over his film's 145 minutes, to discover it, too.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Let It Fall is filled with insights and instructive cause-and-effective connections, but there are no neat conclusions to draw.
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