Detroit Review: Kathryn Bigelow Captures the War at Home
The easy way to describeDetroitis that even though the film is about events from June 29, 2025, it’s also clearly about events that have been in the headlines—police brutality, racial injustice, and the difficulty in (and perhaps impossibility of) resolving these tensions. And yet to simply say thatDetroitis about “right now” is to miss its larger point that this conflict has been going on for centuries. It may be making headlines and blowing up social media these days, but it’s an issue we’ve refused to confront, and for white people it’s been far too easy to dismiss....