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The Sentence
Description
In a painful and more realistic case, Rudy Valdez appears after his 15-year-old sister was charged with conspiracy to commit numerous crimes committed by her ex-boyfriend. It seems to Roddy that it will be difficult to deal with the tragedy by recounting his sister's daily details and the family's moments. The whole family is fighting for Cindy to release her.
In a painful and more realistic case, Rudy Valdez appears after his 15-year-old sister was charged with conspiracy to commit numerous crimes committed by her ex-boyfriend. It seems to Roddy that it will be difficult to deal with the tragedy by recounting his sister's daily details and the family's moments. The whole family is fighting for Cindy to release her.
Actors:
Eric Sterling
Eric Sterling
Genre:
Crime, Documentary
Director:
Rudy Valdez
Country:
United States
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October 10, 2018
...The Sentence is one of the most powerful documentaries of 2018.
January 21, 2018
The Sentence is so committed to its concentration on emotion and heart that it's difficult not to get carried away and it feels almost churlish to quibble with the intellectual responses it barely aspires to.
October 10, 2018
Here's a true surprise in 2018: a documentary about an American injustice that will likely leave you, by its end, blubbering tears of relieved joy.
October 10, 2018
Indicts the mandatory minimum-sentence system not through accumulating facts but by showing its traumatic toll on [the director's] family.
October 15, 2018
We know that the camera isn't being held by a stranger but a beloved uncle, which imbues each exchange with not only affection but also an irreproducible immediacy.
October 15, 2018
This is not that film. It's an intimate, small-scale portrait of how a profoundly unintelligent policy impacted one family.
October 11, 2018
What unnecessary imprisonment does to families is often written about in abstract terms, but to see what it did to one specific family runs an emotional gamut that the patience of this heroically committed filmmaker does full justice to.
October 15, 2018
The project is as painful as it is straightforward.
October 11, 2018
By making you feel deeply for his sister and her children, Valdez has fashioned his film to make the lapses less glaring.
August 01, 2018
The subject is inherently engrossing, but a better documentary could (and probably will) be made about it.
October 12, 2018
The Sentence is the beginning of a conversation that needs to continue.
October 15, 2018
At some point during the documentary, the story of a family tragedy begins to find its activism tone, and Rudy's work to document Cindy's life... begins to be drawn as a universal story, which can change lives. [Full review in Spanish]