“Newtown is an act of
memorialization, a demand that
this most distractible of countries
look close and continue to care.”
“Through Snyder’s lens, you see a town realizing it has a chance to be the one that finally says “enough is enough.”
“Elegantly and devastatingly captures the tenor of a town that will carry these scars for a generation. Snyder’s film deserves to be seen.”
“Newtown emerges as a blistering,
if tacit, indictment of the
nation’s broken promise
to never forget.”
“Snyder uses her camera as a friendly ear and as an eye to bear witness. It’s a shocking and compelling piece of work.”
“It is a visceral, powerful experience. You will cry. It is worth it.”
“Powerful and illuminating.”
“Aims to “tell a story of collective grief” and how communities piece themselves back together after.”
“Legislative questions are not addressed, and even the killer’s name is not mentioned. Instead, viewers are given wrenching access to a place that more than three years later continues to grapple with an attack that claimed the lives of 26 victims, many of them small children.”
