Ultraviolence

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Ultraviolence

2020

1h 15m

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A call for justice for the individuals who have died while in police custody in the United Kingdom. Focusing on the deaths between 1995 and 2005, archival footage and interviews show the failings of the UK criminal justice system.

Alex Ramon

Sight & Sound

May 14

Where Injustice was lucid, focused and persuasive, Ultraviolence ends up mostly hectoring, obvious and diffuse.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

06/24/2021

5/5

This makes every other documentary look obtuse and irrelevant.

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Stephen Dalton

The Hollywood Reporter

10/14/2020

Ultraviolence is only a small contribution to a huge ongoing debate, but these unresolved tales of injustice deserve to be amplified and interrogated...

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Edward Porter

Sunday Times (UK)

12/06/2022

4/5

Fero makes the film a bit too ranty for its own good. But his central point — that deaths in police custody are far too common and far too often excused — is surely indisputable.

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Orla Smith

Seventh Row

11/19/2020

There is a fine line between depicting violence as a wake-up call versus misery porn, and Fero crosses over to the latter by providing little context for the brutality.

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Tom Beasley

Flickering Myth

10/21/2020

3/5

There's no doubting the fire in this movie's belly and the importance of the stories it foregrounds.

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A call for justice for the individuals who have died while in police custody in the United Kingdom. Focusing on the deaths between 1995 and 2005, archival footage and interviews show the failings of the UK criminal justice system.

Director: Ken Fero
Producer: Ken Fero
Screenwriter: Tariq Mehmood
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 15m