Separated

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Separated

Released Oct 4

1h 33m

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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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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

It's illuminating in the most chilling way.

Rated: 3.5/4

Dec 6, 2024

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Bob Strauss

San Francisco Chronicle

Still, current events lend the film a power that goes beyond its flaws. The way “Separated” looks back in indignation is now incalculably enhanced by fear for the future, with even more traumatizing measures on the horizon...

Rated: 3/4

Nov 20, 2024

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Steve Pond

TheWrap

“Separated” is characteristically thorough and eye-opening.

Oct 15, 2024

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Jason Delgado

Film Threat

Kudos to Morris and Soboroff for telling the story, which is hopefully never repeated.

Rated: 8.5/10

Dec 20, 2024

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Christopher Llewellyn Reed

Hammer to Nail

It’s a hard watch, but not nearly as difficult as the real thing. And since we’ll probably soon be seeing the sequel, which is never as fun as the original, it will most likely be much worse soon. Good times lie ahead, no doubt.

Dec 17, 2024

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Evan Dossey

Midwest Film Journal

The saddest thing about Separated — and, in fact, all of Morris’s documentaries about American politics — is not that they’re about something that happened but rather about all the mistakes we’re primed to make again and again and again.

Dec 17, 2024

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If you commit a Crime you will be arrested no child nor wife goes into Jail with you. Over 300,000 Children are missing according to our Government sold into work or segs slavery. Come Legally. smh

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/17/24

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Synopsis

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

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