Silver Dollar Road

"Another Raoul Peck documentary triumph (...) it effectively connects one family’s story with the larger scourge of legal Black land theft (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" 

"Enraging, uplifting documentary on a Black family’s legal battle (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" 

"These moments make 'Silver Dollar Road' as much evidence of the systemic challenges faced by Black people in the United States as it is a tenderly observed portrait of a family fighting to survive" 

"[It] is stunning not just in subject matter, but because it has director Raoul Peck veering from his usual style (...) it offers a different, conventional approach to a fuzzy story that, to an outsider, might appear up for debate (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)" 

"The Reels’ story, complete with these ebullient moments, deserves to be told. But it warrants so much more attention to detail, so that we can understand exactly what’s at stake, and how to keep it from happening again" 

"The story of the Reels and 'Silver Dollar Road' offers the rural version of gentrification, in which families of modest means are priced out of their longtime homes and communities by unfettered, opportunistic development" 

"It is ultimately a drag"