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Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead (2009)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:14
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.7/10
Genre: Education/General Interest
Synopsis: How far would you go for your beliefs? That question, along with many others, is pondered in this thought-provoking film. The man of the title is on a mission to promote the death penalty in... [More]
Director: Ted Schillinger
Reviews for Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead
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Vivid, engrossing, and surprising. Full Review |
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6/10 |
In the documentary, Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead, New York Law School professor and well-known retributivist Blecker submits he can measure -- in his gut -- who deserves to die. Full Review |
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On a deeper level (and a skillfully conscious one on the part of filmmaker Ted Schillinger) it's a portrait of two men's utter loneliness in their thoughts. Full Review |
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Anyone who's gotten jazzed by a lively philosophy class (hello?) should find it fascinating. Full Review |
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8.75/10 |
A compelling, provocative and illuminating documentary that will inspire you to intelligently reexamine your own beliefs about the death penalty. Full Review |
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 2/4 |
A thoughtful if dry discussion of the death penalty revolving around the titular gentleman. Full Review |
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Intriguing, thought-provoking documentary about a pro-death-penalty lawyer and his unlikely relationship with a murderer on death row will satisfy socially conscious viewers on both sides of the ever-controversial issue. Full Review |
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3/5 |
As for the filmmaker, Mr. Schillinger remains neutral to a fault. His documentary, while compelling, can also be frustrating. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Just as its subject likes to hear himself talk -- often in ever-more-vague blasts of logic clear only to himself -- this cheap-looking doc gives him lots of air. Full Review |
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B+ |
Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead is straightforward as documentary filmmaking, but it’s fascinating as a dialectic on fairness. Full Review |
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3/6 |
Blecker’s climactic nighttime encounter with garden-variety execution advocates offers a resolution-by-proxy of the duo’s bizarre waltz, as well as a powerful home truth. Full Review |
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B |
A legal joust that ends in the sort of satisfyingly ambiguous fashion that should spur post-screening conversation. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Miring itself in both the sound and troubling aspects of Blecker's views, as well as the honesty and hypocrisy of his actions, Schillinger's portrait unobtrusively allows its zealous, self-reflective subject to speak for himself. Full Review |
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As it turns out, its titular subject makes it one of the few genuinely problematic documentaries to come along in a long while. Full Review |
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The New York law professor's obsessive relationship to death-row inmate Daryl Holton, self-confessed slayer of his own four children, assumes enough bizarre twists to lay bare the myriad contradictions and prejudices. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The film's a wicked batch of screwy logic but, even when tossed and shaken, all the moving pieces fall into place. Full Review |
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