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Feeding over-the-top language to underdeveloped characters, Deon Taylor's "Supremacy" dramatizes racism with an unvarying intensity that quickly becomes wearing.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Overview
The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 years of solitary confinement in maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, Garrett Tully is on the run again. When he finds a house off a dirt road and takes a family hostage, he thinks the Aryan Brotherhood has his back–and his kidnap victims are black. The family’s patriarch, Mr. Walker, is a jaded ex-con who hates cops so much he disavowed his own son for becoming one. Seeing a familiar desperation in Tully, Walker refuses to call the authorities for help, causing familial tensions to escalate, and soon grave missteps are made.
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The film plays out almost like a conventional Hollywood hostage thriller but for the incendiary, racially charged subtext.
Martin Tsai, Los Angeles Times
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It's so grueling an ordeal that its revelations barely penetrate the murk.
Graham Fuller, New York Daily News
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[A] dour, dreary drama ...
Sam Weisberg, Village Voice
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