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Film · 1988 · Crime documentary
The Thin Blue Line
Directed by Errol Morris
1988
★ 7.0 editorial score
A documentary that overturned a real murder conviction: Morris reconstructed the same killing over and over from contradictory testimony, and the case collapsed within a year of release.
“Errol Morris, the director of ''The Thin Blue Line,'' has fashioned a brilliant work of pulp fiction around this crime. Mr. Morris's film is both an investigation of the murder and a nightmarish meditation on the difference between truth and fiction, an alarming glimpse at the many distortions that have shaped Mr. Adams's destiny...justice begins to feel as remote for the viewer as it undoubtedly feels to Mr. Adams.”
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