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Newtown
Directed by
Kim A. Snyder
Not Rated
2016
85m
Documentary
,
History
6.9
94%
69%
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A look at how the community of Newtown, Connecticut came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.
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Cast of Newtown
Joe Biden
Self (archive footage)
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)
Kim A. Snyder
Director
Amy Hobby
Producer
Maria Cuomo Cole
Producer
Newtown Ratings & Reviews
The Atlantic
Sophie Gilbert
It feels like the closest thing to a tribute audiences can pay to the children and adults who died, and the town that continues to grieve them.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
One needn't be a mother or father to be drawn in by what Snyder has captured in this quiet but powerful film. Just being human will do.
Truthdig
Jordan Riefe
Newtown is emotionally active, moving us in ways facts and figures never could.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
Snyder's filmmaking is elegant but basic, and it needs not be more. She's not there to dazzle us. She's there to bear witness.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
What comes through is that the survivors have in no sense reached "closure" -- that meaningless word. This is a movie about people trying to make sense out of the senselessness of what happened.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Snyder has chosen to make a documentary about collective grief. She's created a devastating cry from the heart of a crisis ...
Paste Magazine
Michael Snydel
Newtown is a stirring reminder that life goes on, even when the foundation of one's life is shaken by an event, but when it tries to cover too much, the film invites more questions than it explores.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
It's impossible to watch this film and feel no particular way about the killings.
New York Times
Neil Genzlinger
This film isn't content to be merely a "never forget" reminder; it wants to convey just how deep and lasting the pain is, from this attack and, by extension, many others.
TheWrap
Tricia Olszewski
Even coming nearly four years after the shooting, Newtown remains devastatingly timely.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
Modest but devastating ...
Film Journal International
Maria Garcia
Newtown is the filmmaker's biased narrative of that village as one defiled by an outcast who is never named by her or her subjects.
The New Republic
Will Leitch
The movie is so understated that it's almost barely there.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
Relying heavily on talking heads is usually the mark of a documentary without much imagination, but what more should a movie on this subject do than create a space for these people to discuss their pain and trauma?
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
[A] transfixing documentary portrait of collective grief and resilience.
Slant Magazine
Clayton Dillard
Its enervated address of both mental-health treatment and gun laws receives few constructive articulations beyond a single scene.
The Film Experience
Glenn Dunks
It's a wise decision by Snyder to make her film more about the task of moving forward rather than the grim reminders of the past and make Newtown more vital than but a mere retelling of one of the worst days in recent history.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
"Aftermath," that tossed-around clich, comes into tender, harrowing focus. ... A crucial, profound strength of Newtown is its refusal to rush toward "closure" as necessary, or even to suggest that it's possible.
The Playlist
Katie Walsh
This film is an important historical record, and an important reminder of an event in American history that could have changed everything, that should have changed everything.
Variety
Andrew Barker
Kim A. Snyder's Sandy Hook documentary is an elegant, devastating portrait of a town in mourning.
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