Reviews

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  ★★★★ review by Elliot Farinaro on Letterboxd

  Aside from some of the more technical drawbacks I had with the film (like the tacky opening credit sequence), this was engrossing, shocking, and it contains my favorite moment in a film of 2017 so far.

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  ★★★★½ review by Eli Hayes on Letterboxd

  1 o' tha most suspenseful
  
  filmeeeeees o' tha decade.

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  ★★★★ review by Dan Gorman on Letterboxd

  Super-compelling documentary about the murder of a College Basketball star and the cover-up that followed; tightly composed, always interesting, and upsetting in moments.

  If you've already watched The Keepers, Making a Murderer, The Jinx, et al. this will be right up your alley.

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  ★★★★½ review by Jason Bailey on Letterboxd

  Director Patt Kondelis helms this riveting true crime story, full of twists and shocks, about the sandal that rocked the campus of Baylor University and the city of Waco, Texas in the summer of 2003. “It’s one of those things people around here do NOT talk about,” we’re told early on, and it’s easy to see why — what begins as a sort of bizarre missing person case turns into a jaw-dropping story of murder, cover-up, corruption, NCAA rules violations, and surreptitious recordings. And, of course, BU’s faculty and alumni do their best to manipulate the outcome and the aftershocks, for the good of The Program. It’s one of those docs where just when you think it can’t get any stranger, it does, so it will appeal to the 'Jinx'/'Serial' set. But beyond that, it’s a blistering character study of Coach Dave Bliss, whose passive language, crocodile tears, and stunning conspiracy theories (conveyed when he thinks the camera is off) accumulate into a real, unvarnished portrait of everyday evil.

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  ★★★½ review by Jamie Woodham on Letterboxd

  Is there anything more satisfying than a dumb guilty scumbag in a documentary saying something he didn't mean to and then saying "wait, you can't put that part in" as if that's remotely how documentaries work?

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