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Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris incisively probes the darkest chapter in recent American history: family separations. Merging narrative vignettes of one migrant family's plight with hard-hitting interviews with government officials, Morris paints a jaw-dropping picture of the state-sponsored crisis of cruelty, as over 1300 children remain separated today, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

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Steve Pond

TheWrap

“Separated” is characteristically thorough and eye-opening.

Oct 15, 2024

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Nonetheless, what we glean from the totality of the interviews and research, and Morris’ well-honed style of coalescing information, is damning enough.

Oct 14, 2024

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Ben Kenigsberg

New York Times

White’s fire, and his soaring warnings about how political sycophants willing to effect a policy like family separation will always exist, are powerful enough.

Oct 11, 2024

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Cody Dericks

AwardsWatch

Separated is an alarming, upsetting, and stirring look at one of the darkest chapters in American history. It demands to be seen, not just to pay tribute to those hurt by this policy, but to remind audiences that it very well could happen again.

Rated: B+

Oct 31, 2024

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Peter Keough

Arts Fuse

Separated is a compelling, urgent, and essential examination of an ongoing injustice (over 1300 children remain separated today, according to the Department of Homeland Security) that every American should see and ponder before going to the polls.

Oct 27, 2024

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Stephen Silver

The SS Ben Hecht

It’s a worthwhile film, featuring testimony by some of the people involved, although it doesn’t have quite the same oomph as the best of Morris’ work

Oct 27, 2024

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Jacob Soboroff

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Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris incisively probes the darkest chapter in recent American history: family separations. Merging narrative vignettes of one migrant family's plight with hard-hitting interviews with government officials, Morris paints a jaw-dropping picture of the state-sponsored crisis of cruelty, as over 1300 children remain separated today, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Director: Errol Morris
Producer: Errol Morris, Robert Fernandez, Molly O'Brien, Steven Hathaway
Screenwriter: Jacob Soboroff
Distributor: MSNBC Films
Production Co: NBC News Studios, Participant Media, Fourth Floor, Moxie Pictures
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 4, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 17, 2024
Runtime: 1h 33m