AllMovie

Jon Osman builds a strong argument for a miscarriage of justice in his polemical documentary as he presents both hard evidence, with particular emphasis on the research conducted by New York's Civilian Complaint Board, and appeals to emotion, including compelling portraits of the people who knew Antonio Rosario and Hilton Vega. The strongest story "hook" in this film is the politicization of Margarita Rosario. Osman does a good job of conveying her sense of betrayal, frustration, and pain, and showing how she converted these feelings into political activism. This is particularly evident in the film's most provoctiave sequence in which Osman uses spilt screen to show Ms. Rosario's politely persistant comments in a call to Rudy Giuliani's radio program while simultaneously showing footage of Giuliani's dismissive and purportedly inaccurate comments in his on-air response to her. It's a disturbing sequence that gets to the heart of how Ms. Rosario refuses to accept feeling helpless in the face of official indifference to her concerns.