An examination of a failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three.
Excellent.
Prepare to be shocked, disturbed, awed... and, if you expected justice to prevail at last, ultimately devastated.
A gripping documentary.
Amy Berg’s long, fiercely compelling, often angry-making film is about the weighted scales of US justice, and amounts to a fight for fairness: when you have to settle for the best redress a corrupt judicial system can give you, it may be time to clean house.
One of the year's most hauntingly memorable films.
Director Berg lays out the film with clarity and persuasiveness, and brings it as close to a happy ending as the tragic squalor of the case will allow.
After your blood has stopped boiling, it’s the quieter moments that stay with you. Now go see Paradise Lost.
The prevaricating Arkansas authorities were at best pigheadedly cynical, at worst criminally conspiratorial, and the movie is both a shocking indictment of the American criminal justice system and a tribute to the dedication of selfless civil rights lawyers and their supporters from all over the world.
A diligent, complex and justly indignant documentary about a grisly triple murder case.
The jaw-dropping nature of the story as a whole is so incredible, the best crime writers in the world would struggle to make it up.
Peter Jackson's West of Memphis: the tale of three wronged men
Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Monday February 18, 2013, until Thursday February 21, 2013. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com
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