Crown Heights
When Colin Warner is wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devotes his life to proving Colin's innocence.
12 December 1978, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
12 August 1991, San Bernardino, California, USA
16 November 1956, New York City, New York, USA
12 February 1954, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
1 December 1967, New York City, New York, USA
September 07, 2017
Warner's story deserves to be more widely known, and Crown Heights does an acceptable, if not overly original, job doing just that.September 07, 2017
Stanfield deftly balances rage and resignation, and Asomugha is impressive as a crusader who refuses to give up.August 31, 2017
The two men's relationship, and others in the film, might have been explored in greater depth, but Ruskin rightly keeps his focus on the judicial system as it fails Warner again and again.September 07, 2017
This is a calm, methodical response to a life-altering corruption of justice.September 26, 2017
Crown Heights is based on an actual crime and genuinely appalling miscarriage of justice. Thankfully, it's also a story of friendship that's as uplifting as it is rightly upsetting.September 08, 2017
The sole fresh twist, one that should have been more than enough to drive the show - one friend dedicating his life to exonerating the other - is repeatedly undermined by their unequal presentation.September 07, 2017
"Crown Heights" is soul-shaking only in the abstract. In execution, it's deathly dull.September 08, 2017
... recognizes that the value in telling Colin's story is about more than a happy ending. And likewise, it realizes that the bigger picture dictates celebrating a positive outcome with only tempered optimism toward the future.September 06, 2017
Otherwise, 'Crown Heights' is a sensitive and compelling story of the injustices of a flawed and broken judicial system that finds it easier to use its weight to beat down those on the lower rungs ... than ... uncover the truth and be fair and impartial.September 01, 2017
"Crown Heights" plows forward, steely in its resolve, and forgoes the emotional fireworks in favor of subdued, straightforward storytelling.September 07, 2017
Strong central performances make this harrowing chronicle a gripping tale.September 05, 2017
Stanfield, in a performance of quiet power, fully inhabits Warner's agony at the injustice that is being done to him.