The Sentence 2018 Watch Full Movie in HD

Rudy Valdez is in a nightmare because his 15-year-old sister Cindy is accused of plotting crimes committed by her ex-boyfriend. Valdez begins to think again about the tragedy and deal with it by filming his sister's family, whether the daily details or the moments that Cindy no longer shares. There is no solution other than fighting alongside the family for Cindy.

Genre:

Crime, Documentary

Actors:

Eric Sterling

Director:

Rudy Valdez

Country:

United States

Release:

2018

IMDb:

6.9

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Duration:

85 min

Vanity Fair

The project is as painful as it is straightforward.

October 15, 2018

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Los Angeles Times

What unnecessary imprisonment does to families is often written about in abstract terms, but to see what it did to one specific family runs an emotional gamut that the patience of this heroically committed filmmaker does full justice to.

October 11, 2018

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Diario La Estrella (Fort Worth, TX)

At some point during the documentary, the story of a family tragedy begins to find its activism tone, and Rudy's work to document Cindy's life... begins to be drawn as a universal story, which can change lives. [Full review in Spanish]

October 15, 2018

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Hollywood Reporter

The Sentence is so committed to its concentration on emotion and heart that it's difficult not to get carried away and it feels almost churlish to quibble with the intellectual responses it barely aspires to.

January 21, 2018

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The Daily Beast

We know that the camera isn't being held by a stranger but a beloved uncle, which imbues each exchange with not only affection but also an irreproducible immediacy.

October 15, 2018

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Paste Magazine

This is not that film. It's an intimate, small-scale portrait of how a profoundly unintelligent policy impacted one family.

October 15, 2018

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Solzy at the Movies

...The Sentence is one of the most powerful documentaries of 2018.

October 10, 2018

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Film Journal International

Indicts the mandatory minimum-sentence system not through accumulating facts but by showing its traumatic toll on [the director's] family.

October 10, 2018

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Variety

The subject is inherently engrossing, but a better documentary could (and probably will) be made about it.

August 01, 2018

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RogerEbert.com

The Sentence is the beginning of a conversation that needs to continue.

October 12, 2018

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New York Times

By making you feel deeply for his sister and her children, Valdez has fashioned his film to make the lapses less glaring.

October 11, 2018

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L.A. Weekly

Here's a true surprise in 2018: a documentary about an American injustice that will likely leave you, by its end, blubbering tears of relieved joy.

October 10, 2018

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