A narrower focus might have allowed the film to better tease out such knotty material.

The movie takes us back and also forward, into the sadder and wiser present day, when we can now see how crack changed the culture.

Contradictions abound in Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy, which despite its seemingly straightforward approach, boasts a scattershot collection of opposing (and frequently unreconciled) ideas.

Provocative docu about drugs, corruption, and racism.