Brings a sense of immediacy and even anarchy to an often-told story.

| Original Score: 3.5 | Jan 29, 2021

Chicago 10 is a clever film, and visually engaging.

| Apr 10, 2020

Ingenious. Innovative. Imaginative. Informative. Visionary. Vibrant. Appropriated. Historical. Educational. Stimulating. Timeless Captivating. Energetic. Explosive. Relevant. Constitutional. Patriotic. Yippicentric. This, is CHICAGO 10.

| Nov 7, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Chicago 10 is definitely worth a look for skeptics young and old.

| Apr 28, 2011

It may be most effective for audiences who do need a spoonful of sugar to make the historical medicine go down.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 12, 2010

Revisits 1968 as a court room drama, through a fresh cinematic look to avoid period clichés while broadening history's appeal to both boomers and their children.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 14, 2008

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008

Chicago 10 isn't perfect, but is required viewing for anyone who wasn't around at the time, if only as a reminder of the effectiveness of citizen action.

| Oct 18, 2008

Morgan is more interested in recreating the confusing experience of living through those times than in evaluating them in a perspective informed by 40 years of hindsight.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 19, 2008

The ultimate lesson? Sometimes you make a noble point by acting like a jackass.

| Original Score: B | Sep 15, 2008

Director Brett Morgen earns high marks for finding a most innovative way to illustrate a regrettable chapter in American history.

| Aug 27, 2008

...despite its storytelling creativity, it doesn't generate as much inspiration or excitement as I would have expected.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 24, 2008

Chicago 10 is an art-house rarity that manages to visually dazzle while peeling away the layers of this contentious moment in time, giving viewers an eyeful of social unrest and wondrous screen fantasia.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 21, 2008

The raw, gritty, real stock footage just doesn't match with the spoof-like quality of the animated trial.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 18, 2008

Short on nuance but long on passion, Chicago 10 recreates the gradual boil-over from peaceful gathering to chaos by augmenting ample, close-range footage with the kind of sonic boom that seldom accompanies political documentaries.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 9, 2008

Indirectly scolds today's meek populace for letting its war-minded government rage unchecked.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 22, 2008

Chicago 10 brandishes enough sickening reality (Chicago police clubbing protestors, etc.) to make the audience gasp with astonishment.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2008

The Chicago riots may have been our parents' history, but this is not our parents' documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 11, 2008

Despite the number in its title, this odd but sometimes entertaining documentary/docudrama hybrid looks at seven defendants who were accused of organizing the protests and orchestrating the resulting mayhem.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 10, 2008