2025 · documentary
The Alabama Solution
Directed by Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman1h 57m2025
Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems.
Our read: The Alabama Solution (2025) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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