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The story of the renowned reggae record shop owner and music producer Blacker Dread, his extended family, friends and the wider Brixton community.
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| GuardianEuan FergusonThe best documentaries give a slice of other lives, lived both well and badly, which, in the right hands, can linger in your head for months. These were the best hands. |
| Sunday Times (UK)Victoria SegalStanding close with her camera, letting people talk, [Molly] Dineen catches the rhythms and textures of everyday life until people are ready to tell their stories. |
| Time OutDave CalhounWhat emerges is a sensitive portrait of a man at a difficult crossroads in his life. There's an immediate crisis involving a run-in with the law. But there are more lingering ghosts to do with migration, separation, integration and identity. |
| Times (UK)Carol MidgleyThis wasn't a perfect documentary, but it managed to raise issues without lecturing. |
| GuardianSam WollastonIt's a big, beautiful sprawl of a film, that spans continents as well as generations. |
| Daily Mail (UK)Christopher StevensThe documentary was tawdry and sad...It all felt very bleak. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Chris HarveyDineen's receptive but gently interrogative style was the key to a portrait that told many quiet truths about life in contemporary Britain for the black community. |