Detroit

Detroit is vivid and it is demanding, designed to shake you out of complacency.

The motel sequence is so suspenseful that it's a shame that what follows is so perfunctory.

It's not an easy film to watch but Bigelow's control over every aspect ensures it's utterly convincing.

Detroit, however, suggests [director Kathryn Bigelow] - and her current screenwriter - still can't quite tell the difference between an impactful film and an important one.

What might be most characteristic of Bigelow is the eerie feeling that the police are halfway 'acting out', performing their brutality.

It is a harrowing, relentless and intensely angry movie. As it should be.

Detroit is a timely film with a relevancy that cannot and should not be ignored any longer.

Detroit suggests that the self-destructive riots only resulted in further despair, but to not act in the face of such widespread racism would be almost inhuman. Indeed, there are no easy or cohesive answers or solutions in the film, nor in the real world.

Indeed, Detroit is a jarring ride in a car with no brakes that will leave you rattled and in a haze once its over.

There's the famous saying that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Director Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, Detroit shows us in vivid, cinematic brilliance how true this axiom really is.