The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light.
23 December 1964, Evanston, Illinois, USA
14 October 1974, Lubbock, Texas, USA
7 August 1985, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, USA
31 October 1961, Pukerua Bay, North Island, New Zealand
19 November 1958, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
11 December 1974, West Memphis, Arkansas, USA
13 February 1961, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
April 6, 1952 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
30 December 1946, Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 09, 2013
A documentary that distills 19 years of a witch hunt, a grass roots movement, lost leads, confusion, countless appeals, and hope into one remarkable movie that is hellbent on setting the record straight.
March 14, 2013
A real-life horror story, made no less shocking by the familiarity of its early scenes.
March 14, 2013
While the "Paradise Lost" films captured events as they unfolded in the heat of battle, "West of Memphis" has the luxury of at least partial closure.
April 05, 2013
It's not a new story, true, but "West of Memphis" makes it both extremely personal and universally painful.
March 07, 2013
A true-crime story that begins with a notorious murder case and grows into a chilling indictment of the American justice system.
April 04, 2013
A sobering look at how the wheels of justice can be -- and are -- manipulated by political expediency and a small town's tendrils of the old boy network
March 29, 2013
The film is so utterly transfixing you won't believe almost two-and-a-half hours have passed when the final credits roll.
May 13, 2013
It's another case where, instead of a prosecution having to prove a case, a defendant has to choose the lesser of two evils. "This happens all the time," defendant Damien Echols says of the whole process, and he's right.
May 13, 2013
It effectively condenses what took the 'Paradise Lost' films nearly eight hours to reveal into a tight, snappy 149 minutes that affords you everything you need to know about the West Memphis Three.
March 18, 2013
I would have preferred Jackson's clinically-presented project display a bit more reverence for the three young lives that were brutally taken some twenty years ago.
March 21, 2013
We feel like we're watching an overlong true-crime television episode and not a movie.
February 21, 2013
And justice for all? Hardly.
