05 Oct Filmmaker Magazine | Critic’s Notebook NYFF: Faces Places, The Rape of Recy Taylor, Last Flag Flying

“Recy is one person, but her story is that of many. In Buirski’s hands, her story becomes one of both the history of sexual assault against black women and the essential role that black women have played in the civil rights battles of the past century”

“The Rape of Recy Taylor is one of 18 films to screen in the Spotlight on Documentary series at NYFF ’17. The film, from doc director/producer Nancy Buirski (The Loving Story, By Sidney Lumet), marks the first cinematic telling of a horrific crime that took place in Abbeville, Alabama in 1944.”

“The Rape of Recy Taylor chronicles an era of American history with which most of us are familiar, but it does so in a way that strips the period of its traditional hallmarks. By focusing on the advocacy efforts of women and visualizing their lives through race films, Buirski’s film allows us to see the Civil Rights Movement anew.”

05 Oct Shadow And Act | ‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’ unpacks the forgotten story of a woman who refused to be silenced (NYFF Review)

“Filmmaker Nancy Buirski’s new documentary The Rape of Recy Taylor chronicles the horrendous assault that Taylor endured, which caused outrage across the country before it was swiftly erased from the history books.”

"Rape is an unspeakable crime – it is as revolting as it is unfathomable and yet it remains so prevalent. The world has never been a safe place for women, but for women of color and Black women, in particular, it has been nightmarish."

05 Oct IndieWire | ‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’ Review: Nancy Buirski’s Wrenching Documentary Is More Relevant Than Ever — NYFF

"The Loving Story" filmmaker returns with another look at justice denied, deferred, and demanded."

"This documentary exposes how the lack of justice for Recy Taylor is still prevalent today."

“Buirski’s weaving together of material is most impactful in these mid-feature scenes, unspooling a rich and horrifying world that goes far beyond just Taylor’s experiences.”

05 Oct Salon | Should white directors tell black stories?

"Buirski spoke with me on 'Salon Talks' about why she choose to tell the story of Taylor’s struggle on film. “White people are responsible for what happened to black people and we are complicit if don’t try to do something to heal that,” she said. 'For me, movie-making is how I can make a contribution.' "

05 Oct Bold As Love Magazine | REVIEW: “The Rape of Recy Taylor” – New York Film Festival

"There are so many relatively unknown stories that have helped to change the world as we know it. Recy Taylor’s own is one of them."

“What filmmaker Nancy Buirski’s documentary excellently does is further expose a long time truth: that the legacy of physical abuse of Black women by white men, one reaped during American enslavement of Blacks and has not ended, has negatively affected both Black women and men’s everyday functionality.”

05 Oct Filmmaker Magazine | “Women Were Afraid to Speak Up — That’s What Made Recy Taylor So Important”: Director Nancy Buirski on The Rape of Recy Taylor

"What the race films did for me moreso was to create a kind of metaphorical idea that these events happened to many women, not just a few. There was something almost symbolic about the use of them — not to distance you from the event but to enhance the experience and make you feel like there was something almost biblical about the evil that took place there."

29 Sep Black Girl Nerds | Films We’re Excited About At This Year’s New York Film Festival (NYFF)

“Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief investigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice.”...

29 Sep The Root | The Rape of Recy Taylor Looks Back at a Horrific but Largely Forgotten Case From the Jim Crow South

“To evoke the time period of Taylor’s rape, film director Nancy Buirski uses scenes from early-20th-century “race films.” These films, produced for black audiences with entirely black casts, often included storylines of black women being accosted by white men. 'It’s not a typical documentary approach. You don’t have footage,' said Buirski, who also directed The Loving Story in 2012. “I feel strongly that it is critical for people to be able to take away the feeling of what took place.”

29 Sep Reel News Daily | 10 North American Premieres at the New York Film Festival

“Nancy Buirski’s passionate documentary shines a light on a case that became a turning point in the early Civil Rights Movement, and on the many formidable women—including Rosa Parks—who brought the movement to life”

29 Sep Criterion Cast | NYFF 2017 RUNS SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 15; HERE ARE FIVE FILMS TO SEEK OUT

“This is a potent piece of non-fiction filmmaking, a low-fi look into a culture of violence that saw black bodies assaulted with little to no repercussions.”