Always in Season

"Always in Season" takes on a hefty, important topic, but would benefit from a more balanced approach.

This is a deeply difficult film. Very moving.

The questionable death of a North Carolina African American teenager is framed in the greater context of the America's not-so-distant lynching past in Jacqueline Olive's rightfully disturbing documentary "Always in Season."

An unflinching look at how the racial sins of the past flow through the arteries of the present day.

"Always in Season" makes a powerful case that the history of lynching in the American South is not just history - that murders still haunt the present-day sites where they occurred, and that such killings can and do happen today.

Although difficult to watch, the film is invaluable in its exploration of lynching as a form of racial terrorism.

Always in Season is Jacqueline Olive's feature film directing debut and it's a remarkable one.

Extraordinary integration of contextualizing the contemporary violence against African-American men within a long American tradition. Vividly brings past and present to life.

A stirring and substantial look at the United States' legacy of racial injustice.

Lynching docu is chilling but effective; horrifying images.