
'37' is a powerful drama and a fictional account of the night Kitty Genovese was murdered in 1964, Kew Gardens, Queens, where 37 neighbors witnessed the killing and did not intervene. '37' examines the lives of a group of families during the day and night of a tragedy that shocked America.... (Full plot summary below)
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'37' is a powerful drama and a fictional account of the night Kitty Genovese was murdered in 1964, Kew Gardens, Queens, where 37 neighbors witnessed the killing and did not intervene. '37' examines the lives of a group of families during the day and night of a tragedy that shocked America.
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| The PlaylistGary GarrisonThe critical failure of 37 — because certainly a film is allowed to have disdain for its characters; there is no law that art must care for its subjects — is the fundamental lack of narrative, or even of tension. |
| Reel Talk OnlineCandice Frederick37 is disturbing for its reported accuracy surrounding the actual death of Genovese, but Grasten doesn't present an effective narrative. It's a slow burn, leading up to a third act that is muffled and lacks power. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenA drama that plays out as an overdetermined thesis, with Genovese herself (Christina Brucato) a footnote to the darkly stylized plunge into lives of quiet desperation. |
| Slant MagazineClayton DillardThere's a fundamental lack of dramatic exigency in writer-director Puk Grasten's storytelling. |
| Village VoiceAbby GarnettFor all its postures of humanism, the film is remarkably cold toward the victim herself, who appears only briefly. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckIt's hard to imagine a dull film based on the infamous Kitty Genovese murder, but Danish filmmaker Puk Grasten's fictional take on the horrific, real-life crime manages the dubious accomplishment. |
| New York TimesAndy WebsterIt is a competent if sometimes heavy-handed affair, a mosaic of fictitious and underexplored characters who hear the assault but are too self-preoccupied to act. |
| User Reviewlynn cDark but gives a new and better explanation of the event. |
| User ReviewDon SAn indie drama about a fascinating topic: how could 37 people witness the rape and murder of a woman in the streets of New York and not one lift a finger to help her? Especially since some of them knew her personally. This look at "The Bystander Effect," an actual psychological designation, is marred by uneven performances, a slow pace, and what feels like totally fictionalized rationalizations pertaining to motives not to get involved. We don't get to meet all 37, but the few stories that are developed are rather selfish and flimsy. |
| User ReviewAngeline LTries too hard and fails. All evidence of grit and drama on the event or the bystanders and their lives within is washed away in ethereal nonsense. This reviewer usually loves lofty and bizarre, but without something inside it comes off as a failed art school film. 37 accomplishes only this. |