'14th' Review: Ava DuVernay's Birthright Citizenship Documentary Flounders

The "14th" is a strange outlier in Ava DuVernay's filmography. While it gestures at urgency akin to "Selma," "When They See Us" and "Origin" - dramas exploring present political mores through prisms of the past - the director's latest casts an academic net so wide as to be scattered in its telling. Where its pseudo-predecessor, the Netflix documentary "13th," scrutinized mass incarceration, "14th" feels more fluid in its aims, circling the notion of Birthright Citizenship through numerous interview snippets, but seldom finding a grounding for this exploration in . . .