HBO documentary Who Killed Garrett Phillips? is a stunning and enraging examination of race and the U.S. justice system

The Daily Beast

Liz Garbus' two-part documentary, airing Tuesday and Wednesday, explores the allegation that a black man killed a 12-year-old boy in a small town in New York state. "Race is the prime factor of Liz Garbus’ excellent new two-part HBO documentary Who Killed Garrett Phillips?, since numerous elements of its story suggest that the color of Nick’s skin played a big part in his eventual prosecution," says Nick Schager. "Yet while the latest from director Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?) is, first and foremost, a saga about criminal justice system inequity, it’s also something more: an unsolved mystery about the death of a young boy that’s woefully short on concrete answers."