The Hurricane

...a decent-minded, brilliantly executed movie about race and injustice...

...the story of a gifted boxer (Denzel Washington) who was framed for three murders in Patterson, N.J., and lost 19 years of his life because of racism, corruption and--perhaps most wounding--indifference.

...stabs a gutsy sucker punch. With Washington on knock-out form, you'd have to have a wasp's heart not to be moved by a true story delivered with an exhilarating emotional wallop.

Playing Carter demands a great deal of physicality and emotional range, and there isn't a moment when Washington isn't entirely convincing.

...a haunting parable of survival -- of how a black man willshimself through the nearly Kafkaesque ordeal of being presumed, in America,to be a criminal.