A vital and joyful work that puts a lesser-known part of American civil rights history on the map...

| Feb 2, 2021

At times it feels like Crip Camp bites off slightly too much for a movie that's less than two hours long. But I can't really blame the directors for cramming in as much information as they can.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Crip Camp is the kind of documentary whose name circulates in must-watch lists for months: it's an inspiring true story, accessibly told.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2020

It visibilizes the history of one of the most invisibilized communities in this country.

| Apr 23, 2020

How strange - and how telling - that despite the wealth of big-screen documentaries released in the past 20 years, the story behind the remarkable Crip Camp has gone so long untold.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2020

Mostly, this is an empowering feel-good documentary about a small group of people who came together in the right place at the right time.

| Original Score: B | Apr 1, 2020

"Crip Camp" shows change can come from anyone, anywhere at anytime. It's a lesson that should always be taken to heart but rings especially true now.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 1, 2020

Crip Camp is a buoyant, illuminating, and very to-the-point historical documentary.

| Original Score: A+ | Mar 27, 2020

The riveting tale of a decades-long radical revolution that changed the world forever.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 27, 2020

[It] sounds as if it's going to be Good for You rather than good, but it actually turns out to be both - as well as surprising, which is surprising in itself, given that inspirational civil rights documentaries tend to be more alike than unalike.

| Mar 27, 2020

Crip Camp conveys, as few films do, a sense of lives lived furiously and passionately across a vast stretch of time.

| Mar 26, 2020

At about the halfway point, Crip Camp segues from being a snapshot of a cool getaway for disabled teens to a bigger-picture chronicle of the birth of a movement.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 26, 2020

The spirit of revolution - righteously angry yet full of bonhomie, demanding but generous in its reach - is alive and well in the film. As, one hopes, it is everywhere else.

| Mar 26, 2020

The message that inclusivity and community can spur real change is important, and no less urgent today than it was in the 1970s.

| Mar 26, 2020

Using a treasure trove of archived footage and colorful contemporary interviews, Lebrecht and Newnham weave together a punchy, straightforward and inspiring documentary that is greater than the sum of its parts.

| Mar 26, 2020

It's thrilling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2020

Heumann's continued leadership helped secure the passing of the ADA. But the triumphs of these activists is made even sweeter by the footage of them as very young people at Camp Jened...

| Mar 26, 2020

A raucous odyssey filled with twists, setbacks, smart strategizing, and unlikely strokes of luck.

| Mar 25, 2020

Although the template possesses the trappings of what might be called a feel-good film, there's happily nothing saccharine about it.

| Mar 25, 2020

A look back at how a New York summer camp run by hippies helped form a generation of political firebrands ready to fire up the Disability Rights Movement. Produced by Michelle and Barack Obama, this indispensable doc is the definition of inspiring.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 25, 2020