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AV Club

For someone so gloomily aware of his own privilege, Wilkerson spends a lot of the film playing dumb and speculating-a writer's trick for giving shape to a piece with a thesis and no conclusion.

February 27, 2018

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The Film Stage

When the repressed past gains sudden and violent visibility in the present, the genre that's evoked is horror, and one of the film's greatest strengths is the way it leans into this association.

February 27, 2018

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Austin Chronicle

[Travis] Wilkerson has a really keen eye. Not many people wanted to talk, so oftentimes the camera is artfully focused on an imposing tree or a dilapidated building.

April 19, 2018

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RogerEbert.com

It's hard to shake the idea that the 'live documentary' approach isn't a little more satisfying for this material, but it's impossible to deny the power of much of what's on display here.

February 28, 2018

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Film Journal International

Wilkerson's ruminative documentary brings home the filmmaker's preoccupation with the confluence of individual and institutional violence in an exceptionally personal manner.

March 01, 2018

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Variety

Makes fitful attempts to contextualize the shooting within the broader murderous history of American racism, but ultimately is far more interested in expunging the director's own sense of inherited taint.

August 17, 2017

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The Daily Beast

It's the kind of honesty and ownership that's rarely seen in film, let alone in real life.

March 01, 2018

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NPR

Through this personal journey, Wilkerson accesses America's heart of darkness.

February 27, 2018

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New York Times

"Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?" is a passionately political film, aflame with rage in spite of its director's measured, ruminative tone of voice. It is also a horror movie, full of specters and silences and a terror that is pervasive ...

February 27, 2018

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Slant Magazine

In directly requesting the audience's trust, Travis Wilkerson initiates a not-particularly-inviting proposition for the viewer, and specifically the white American viewer.

February 26, 2018

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Thrillist

Not since Ross McElwee's Sherman's March has there been such a contemplative and resonating look at the South through a subjective documentary lens.

March 17, 2018

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indieWire

"Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?" is at its sharpest and most necessary when Wilkerson interrogates his personal connection to the past.

March 01, 2018

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