In the aftermath of the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 dead, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman traveled to Parkland and began filming with students who endured gunfire and the parents who lost their children in the crosshairs. "After Parkland" is an intimate chronicle of families as they navigate their way through the unthinkable; reckoning with unexpected loss, journeying through grief, and searching for new meaning.... (Full plot summary below)
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In the aftermath of the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 dead, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman traveled to Parkland and began filming with students who endured gunfire and the parents who lost their children in the crosshairs. "After Parkland" is an intimate chronicle of families as they navigate their way through the unthinkable; reckoning with unexpected loss, journeying through grief, and searching for new meaning.
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| The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThis documentary might’ve been better with another few years’ worth of reporting and perspective. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattWhat feels important in Parkland is less about pushing any kind of political agenda or viewpoint than about simply listening, and bearing witness. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleTaguchi and Lefferman approach it all less like journalists or vérité documentarians than friendly guests who want to be respectful yet connect to something deeper about pain, mourning and forward movement. |
| The New York TimesBen KenigsbergAfter Parkland is not easy to watch, and certain choices (of images, of music) could be construed as calculated. But the movie succeeds where it counts: showing the reverberations of violence long after most cameras left. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanAfter Parkland has its gun politics, and its aching heart, in the right place, but we need more from a movie about this subject. We need to ask how where the contemporary American heart of darkness is coming from. |
| The Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesThe film succeeds as an astutely constructed, sensitive piece of journalism that becomes a moving account of dealing with grief and irreparable loss. |
| TheWrapDan CallahanPollack’s focus on what can be done in his daughter Meadow’s name becomes more admirable as the film goes on, and his attention to specifics might have been adopted to the benefit of this well-meaning, touching, but sometimes evasive film. |
| User ReviewJPKPretty Good Documentary While i may disagree with some things, This documentary is powerful and heartbreaking. |
