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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Fruitvale Station by the consensus




Fruitvale Station
"A movie making all the right noise" - IMT

RATINGS AND COMMENTS
"I am speechless in a way that no film has made me. Please please please go see Fruitvale Station " - @EllenPage, Twitter, https://twitter.com/EllenPage/status/355837089666973696

"assionate and powerfully acted, Fruitvale Station serves as a celebration of life, a condemnation of death, and a triumph for star Michael B. Jordan." 94% - Rotten Tomato General Consensus

"Fruitvale Station sums up Oscar's life, but the act of summing up can tell us only so much, since a young life is still a maze of promise and indecision." Fresh Tomato - David Denby, New Yorker,

"In naturalistic and unforced strokes, he allows Grant to exist as a complex, even contradictory human, inviting the audience simply to sit with his life, his loss and what they both meant." Fresh Tomato  - Anna Horanaday, Washington Post

"Fruitvale Station is a gut punch of a movie. By standing in solidarity with Oscar, it becomes an unstoppable cinematic force." Fresh Tomato, 3.5/4 - Peter Traverse, Rolling Stone

"A sad, touching and subtle film." Fresh Tomato, 4/5, 80META - A.O Scott,  New York Times,

"Made with assurance and deep emotion, "Fruitvale Station" is more than a remarkable directing debut for 26-year-old Ryan Coogler. It's an outstanding film by any standard." Fresh Tomato, 5/5 - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

"The movie is the model of decency and respect, and does honor to a life unjustly ended; it offers few surprises but is nonetheless shocking." Fresh Tomato - Richard Brody, New Yorker

Meta Critic
  • 100, Wall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern
  •  100, Philadelphia Inquirer, Steven Rea - "t shows us the everyday pressures and problems, the joys and pleasures, experienced by someone moving through life. And then that BART train pulls into Fruitvale, and the rest is history."
  • 100, Roger Ebert website, Steven Boon 4/4





INFORMATION
  • Directed by Ryan Coogler
  • Opened at the prestigious Sundance Film Festivale January 19, 2013 where it garnered critical acclaimed claiming the coveted Grand Jury Price and the Audience Award for U.S dramatic film
  • Wait there's more, it was screened out of the equally prestigious Cannes Film Festival and won Best First Film
  • Opened to US theaters domestically July 12, 2013 
  • Produced by Forest Whitaker
  • Stars: Michael B. Jordan (The Wire, Chronicle),  Octavia Spencer (Oscar winner from The Help)
  • Based on the story of the 2008 shooting of an unnamed youth
  • 90mins run time
  • Urban drama genre


COLLATED RATINGS
  • Rotten Tomatoes 94%
  • Meta critic 85%
 BY THE NUMBERS
  • Currently made $15,987,338 domestically low-average (decent for an independent film)
 LINKS
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/fruitvale-station
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fruitvale_station/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2334649/
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fruitvale.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitvale_Station#cite_note-BOM-1

Key reviews
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fruitvale-station-2013, 4/4 Steven Boon,

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MOVIE REVIEWS
Fruitvale Station TWITTER REVIEW TV SpoT
Fruitvale Station (2013) Movie Review

- - Ivan

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