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TIME Magazine: Riot in Cell Block 11 is the best prison movie produced in years. Read more
A.H. Weiler, New York Times: The grim business of melodrama behind prison walls, so often depicted in standard, banal fashion in films, is given both tension and dignity in Riot in Cell Block 11. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: One of the best of all prison pictures. Read more