Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 29 wins & 40 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Note to the Academy: The Oscar for this year's Best Documentary belongs to 13th, Ava DuVernay's incendiary, indelible and indispensable document about the myth of racial equality in America.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
5 Oct 2016
rotten:
The film is a morass of distortions, half-truths, calculated omissions, absurd hyperbole and outright falsehoods.
– Kyle Smith,
New York Post,
5 Oct 2016
fresh:
Everything in "13th" illuminates what is convincingly presented as a sad and tragic story that we are still living today.
– Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Oct 2016
fresh:
DuVernay keeps it all chugging and churning along, propelled by the force of her montage and the sheer volume of damning, gripping material.
– A.A. Dowd,
AV Club,
6 Oct 2016
fresh:
13th ... is dense with information, and it moves fast. But it's also a story told in images, and the ones DuVernay has chosen ring not just with sadness and horror but also cautious optimism.