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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesBill StametsChicago Sun-TimesBill StametsThis understated documentary, though, has no agenda to shame any one family or agency.
- 75RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyThe Homestretch invites you to empathize with its subjects, to worry with them, to laugh with them, to worry about them. It’s engaging and compelling viewing.
- In a moral sense, teen homelessness is very much a crime, and Chicago-based filmmakers Anne De Mare and Kirsten Kelly aim to shed a light on this nationwide epidemic in The Homestretch, using the Windy City as a test case.
- 70Village VoiceDanny KingVillage VoiceDanny KingThe Homestretch is ultimately a humane accomplishment.
- 50The DissolveChris KlimekThe DissolveChris KlimekIt isn’t a documentarian’s job, necessarily, to prescribe remedies for the social problems she reports. But de Mare and Kelly never get as far as framing the scope of the problem in any real way.