Stonewall

Directed by Roland Emmerich

A young man's political awakening and coming of age in the tumultuous days leading up to the Stonewall Riots.
Stonewall was widely criticised for simplifying history and centring a fictional white protagonist in a story shaped by a far more diverse community. Roland Emmerich stages the period energetically, but the film works better as melodrama than as a convincing account of the uprising’s complexity.

Stonewall

Directed by Roland Emmerich

A young man's political awakening and coming of age in the tumultuous days leading up to the Stonewall Riots.

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Stonewall was widely criticised for simplifying history and centring a fictional white protagonist in a story shaped by a far more diverse community. Roland Emmerich stages the period energetically, but the film works better as melodrama than as a convincing account of the uprising’s complexity.