Movie review
October 9, 2020 · 81 min · PG-13
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
Time is a documentary following Sibil “Fox” Rich Richardson, a mother of six who records two decades of family life while campaigning to free her husband from a 60-year prison sentence after an armed bank robbery they both committed. The film interweaves her home videos with present-day footage to show the personal toll of long-term incarceration. It features prominent abolitionist messaging and frames the U.S. prison system as modern slavery.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Time.
Woke representation / casting
Real documentary subjects, no forced casting or diversity signaling.
Woke political dialogue
Explicit activist dialogue framing prison as slavery and declaring abolitionist identity.
Identity-driven story themes
Story revolves around Black family’s activist resistance to incarceration.
Western institutional / cultural critique
Direct activist critique of prison system as modern form of slavery and systemic racial oppression.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Fringe criticism for bias toward criminals but no major anti-woke backlash.
Creator track record context
Director and producers have history of identity-focused social justice projects.
Production
