24 April 2016 3:04 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Often the most shocking developments are the ones quietly happening under our noses, the sorts of things appearing in investigative reports and then pushed aside by the next scandal or tragedy. Gratitude goes to those documentarians who shine a broader light, which is what Craig Atkinson does in “Do Not Resist,” about the disturbing militarization of U.S. police departments. Shot over two years, incorporating the Ferguson riots together with federal programs funneling a staggering amount of military hardware into small-town America, the doc is stylistically uninspiring, with a tedious threatening sound design, but the powerful subject matter largely overcomes such missteps, as testified by its Tribeca jury win.
In truth, there are probably two documentaries here, one focusing on police response during Ferguson, and another on how the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security set up programs providing major army vehicles to domestic law enforcement. Atkinson puts them together »
- Jay Weissberg
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