Dare Not Walk Alone.

"The more things change, the more they stay the same for disenfranchised African-Americans in the historic city of St Augustine, Florida," writes Scott Foundas in the Voice. "At least that's the argument persuasively, if haphazardly, put forth by director Jeremy Dean's documentary Dare Not Walk Alone, which casts one eye back to the city's not-insignificant role in the 1960s civil-rights movement while keeping the other fixed on the communities of local blacks still living in virtual third-world poverty."

In the New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis finds Dean "makes a valiant attempt to juxtapose past and present, but his goal is consistently undermined by an execution so muddled it's almost unwatchable."

At the Pioneer in New York through Thursday.

Posted by dwhudson at August 23, 2008 12:30 PM