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A film about the prison from the places we least expect to find it.
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| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlIt's rare that a film this outraged is also this calm. |
| The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenProvocative and often fascinating, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is an unsentimental look at the ways prisons shape life outside their walls, in places as disparate as Appalachia and Midtown Manhattan. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMs. Story’s unconventional approach provokes responses that a traditional facts-and-figures discussion might not. Yet the film’s formal abstraction, far from creating emotional distance, is unexpectedly moving. |
| Reason OnlineGlenn GarvinStory's refusal to use narration or otherwise provide facts to establish context for her vignettes actually damages her own arguments at times. |
| AV ClubNoel MurrayStory mostly focuses on the alarming and heartbreaking particulars of a society that first criminalizes then exploits its underclass, squeezing every last dime from citizens who can't spare a nickel. |
| VarietyScott TobiasStory has made a potent political film without having to spray viewers with a fusillade of alarming numbers to back it up. She trusts viewers to intuit their way through fascinating anecdotes and detours that gain a cumulative power, one that data alone cannot possibly express. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenThe plaintive plain-spokenness of the interviewees, the way they matter-of-factly speak of atrocity, is transcendent and intensely haunting. |
| Gay City NewsSteve EricksonWhile it may be that "The Prison In Twelve Landscapes" sometimes feels uncertain about what exactly it wants to be, its individual portions work quite well. |