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Movie Overview
Director
• Brett Morgen
MPAA Rating
R - for language and brief sexual images.
Chicago 10 (2008)

REVIEWS
NEWS
INTERVIEWS
OTHER
OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh
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2.5/5
"The first sign that somebody will be wholly unable to effectively communicate with kids today is when they refer to them as "kids today.""  Filmcritic.com  Chris Barsanti

A-
"Here is an unabashed call to a new age of protests. Is it agit prop propaganda? You bet."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

"It's hard not to think of the many other protestors, detainees, and U.S. citizens whose rights are being stifled as we speak."  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

"Lacks even the confidence to let speak for themselves the images of police and national guardsmen clubbing unarmed American demonstrators."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  Donald J. Levit

B+
"Morgen is an invigorating filmmaker, not content to go the well-traveled route when there's a new path to try. Chicago 10 benefits from that sense of adventure."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

3/5
"let freedom ring!"  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

3/4
"Chicago 10 is a reminder of a time when the counter-culture was out on the street making noise--a history lesson so removed from our present political climate it feels almost like science fiction."  Slant Magazine  Jeremiah Kipp

3/4
"Brett Morgan's intriguing, partially-animated dramatization of the 1968 protest of the Chicago Democratic National Convention dimly shines a light on how far we've come, and how far we haven't."  Big Picture Big Sound  Joe Lozito

3/4
"[Chicago 10] may be history for the attention-deficit generation, but it's too good to ignore."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

4/5
"A bit of a mess but it is such an energetic and ambitious mess that it winds up capturing the energy and feel of its subject better than a more staid approach to the material possibly could have achieved."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

8/10
"Its greatest achievement, no question, is simply that it rescues a period of modern history from its suffocating blanket of respect and worship."  Antagony & Ecstasy  Tim Brayton

"Click here to see review"  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf
OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh
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