Fences's reviews
Media reviews
Roger Ebert
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonDec 27, 2016 The masterful thing about Denzel Washington?s direction here is that he doesn?t exactly open up the play. Instead, he opens up the visual frame around the players.
The Washington Post
Denzel Washington delivers a leonine, devouringly powerful performance as one of American theater's most imposing patriarchs in "Fences".
Rolling Stone
The movie of 'Fences' doesn't need Hollywood bells and whistles. This writer, this director and these actors are all the magnificence required to grab your attention and hold it.
Entertainment Weekly
They invite us in to an intimate place thats messy and painful and hard to shake.
The Wrap
Can you tell its a play? Absolutely. Does that mean a damn thing? Not when the writing is this richly evocative, and the cast so often soars with it.
New York Post
Ebullient, exasperating and implacable, he must be one of the most complex black men ever presented on-screen.
Variety
Denzel Washington directs and stars in a towering screen version of August Wilson's play about a flawed inner-city patriarch.