Flamo!

It is hard to hate a film that tackles this sort of subject. A lot of it is really powerful. The brick wall that says "I am next" is absolutely jawdropping. Still, some of the stories aren't so great. I found Eddie's sections especially boring.

Awesome to see people and organizations like this exist, awful to see how they got started and how they're implemented.

Very emotional and powerful film that certainly can inspire change - both on an internal smaller scale and a large city-wide scale. Bermuda is proof of this as they have since implemented their own CeaseFire organization. Hoping that they will release the 162-minute version that played at Sundance.

Very interesting and very sentimental documentary. You get to see glimpses of street mentality, but the main focus is on interrupters - social workers who aim to prevent as much violence as possible. There are some interesting and inspiring characters working with them, mostly coming from criminal background themselves. At times it feels a bit too sentimental and glorifying, but it's all with good intentions, I'm sure.

Interesting and sober doc, but not nearly as powerful and engaging as the director's breakthrough 'Hoop Dreams'.

"A tour de force of editing that's similar in novelistic scale to Steve James's high school basketball epic Hoop Dreams." - Lauren Wissot

Although the work being done by the violence interrupters in "The Interrupters" is commendable, you can't help but feel that it's all hopeless. Even with people that they have breakthroughs with, they have to rein back in for the most petty of arguments that turn into violent situations. The hopelessness makes the film feel much too long as it hits the same notes with no real growth. It's a sad fact, but it gets repetitive as everyone has such a similar story, which adds to your frustration.

An interesting look into urban violence. Some genuinely touching moments.