Forces the audience to rethink the riots in new and difficult ways, to find empathy and revulsion where it might not have known they existed.
70
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Part documentary, part one-woman quick-change show and part sociological investigation, this is enthralling theater with a purpose.
70
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Smith's work is a means of cauterizing wounds that have not even begun to heal...certainly not across a continent in Giuliani's New York.
63
New York PostJonathan Foreman
New York PostJonathan Foreman
When it was first performed in theaters a couple of years after the L.A. riots took place, Twilight: Los Angeles must have been very powerful. Unfortunately, director Mark Levin's filmed version lacks that impact.
The resulting compromise does not produce a perfect film, but it is a fine record of a classic production and an important reminder of an event that has not stopped echoing in American culture.
50
VarietyDennis Harvey
VarietyDennis Harvey
The camera's closer scrutiny doesn't flatter this unique theatrical reportage.