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The Sentence

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The 15-year-old girl, Sandi, was charged with conspiracy to commit numerous crimes committed by her ex-boyfriend. Her brother Roddy appears to be dealing with the tragedy in order to release her in the clemency plans set up by the Obama administration. Roddy and his family are trying to work again to free Cindy in the seemingly nightmare affair.
Genre: CrimeDocumentary
Director: Rudy Valdez
Country: United States
Release: 2018
IMDb: 7.0
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Duration: 85 min
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Diario La Estrella (Fort Worth, TX)
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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]
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New York Times
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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.
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L.A. Weekly
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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.
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RogerEbert.com
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October 12, 2018

The Sentence is the beginning of a conversation that needs to continue.
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Variety
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August 01, 2018

The subject is inherently engrossing, but a better documentary could (and probably will) be made about it.
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Vanity Fair
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October 15, 2018

The project is as painful as it is straightforward.
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Film Journal International
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October 10, 2018

Indicts the mandatory minimum-sentence system not through accumulating facts but by showing its traumatic toll on [the director's] family.
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The Daily Beast
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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.
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Paste Magazine
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October 15, 2018

This is not that film. It's an intimate, small-scale portrait of how a profoundly unintelligent policy impacted one family.
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Solzy at the Movies
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October 10, 2018

...The Sentence is one of the most powerful documentaries of 2018.
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Los Angeles Times
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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.
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Hollywood Reporter
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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.
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