
When Rob Brown, a Native American gang leader on a remote Minnesota reservation, is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved Ojibwe community. As Rob reckons with his past, his seventeen-year-old protégé, Kevin, dreams of the future - becoming the biggest drug dealer on the reservation. Terrence Malick presents this haunting and visually arresting nonfiction film about the gang crisis in Indian Country... (Full plot summary below)
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When Rob Brown, a Native American gang leader on a remote Minnesota reservation, is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved Ojibwe community. As Rob reckons with his past, his seventeen-year-old protégé, Kevin, dreams of the future - becoming the biggest drug dealer on the reservation. Terrence Malick presents this haunting and visually arresting nonfiction film about the gang crisis in Indian Country.
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| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertThe film is a fascinating look at the culture's legacy of incarceration, addiction and recidivism, captured without interviews or narrative exposition. It simply and directly shows us things that deserve our attention. |
| Time OutTom HuddlestonAn empathetic, often heartbreaking piece of work, at times tough to watch – one party scene is particularly grim and confrontational – at others calm and contemplative. |
| RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireWhatever other filmmakers may have had an impact on Riccobono, the film’s indelible depiction of current Native life is an achievement that belongs to him alone. |
| The Film StageDan MeccaThis is spare-but-effective filmmaking, and brave in not condemning subjects. |
| Brooklyn MagazineBenjamin MercerAn achingly grim look at career-criminal culture flourishing in a vacuum of opportunities. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesRiccobono creates a credible panorama of modern small-town America. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenThis is a harrowing, effective film about life on the reservation. It pulls no punches and offers no solutions, easy or otherwise. The only demand it makes of us is that we pay attention to what is going on here. |
| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsA thematically familiar, yet involving debut feature by Jack Pettibone Riccobono. |
| GuardianLeslie FelperinThis documentary, by the first-time director Jack Pettibone Riccobono, is a deep drink of bleak. But there are incidental moments of beauty or startling surreality to marvel at. |
| Empire MagazineDavid ParkinsonA gruelling watch and a searing indictment of America's disregard for its indigenous peoples. |