Offers a roadmap to where this country is now in terms of its political divide and the way that pop culture and media have become both weaponized and polarized.

| Feb 13, 2024

The result is somewhat superficial. Shut Up and Sing strikes only a glancing blow, when it could have done more.

| Feb 14, 2021

As a documentary that magnificently demonstrates how actions have unintended consequences and how politics impact our personal choices.

| Aug 7, 2018

Masterfully edited, the film combines footage the band made for its Web site and footage shot by Kopple and Peck over the last two years. The filmmakers are clearly in awe of the Chicks' fighting spirit.

| Feb 6, 2018

There is ample material to pick from, but it is often the quieter, more befuddled moments, when all the band's bluster tapers off, and the women just look confused and scared, that the truth of the film emerges.

| Aug 23, 2017

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 22, 2013

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 22, 2013

The thrust of the movie lies in the trenchant mix of image-rebuilding strategies and genuine politicization the Chicks undergo

| Aug 28, 2009

The Dixie Chicks spoke their minds, and that's what America is all about. Shut up and deal with it.

| Apr 29, 2009

The most inspiring element of the film is the genuine fortitude and loyalty that Maines and her bandmates Emily Robinson and Martie Maguire exhibit outwardly and to one another.

| Original Score: C | Apr 24, 2009

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 20, 2008

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Shut Up and Sing tells the story of three young women whose belief in America is bred in the bone, and it shames their critics.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 19, 2007

Free speech and its ramifications are at the heart of "Shut Up & Sing," which recognizes that for the celebrity, engaging in a public exchange of ideas and opinions isn't always without its costs. The price can be dire.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 14, 2007

The movie is rich in interesting moments and the sisterly solidarity is touching, but it's insubstantial and incoherent. We emerge knowing that the Land of the Free doesn't much like dissent. But we already knew that.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2007

The movie isn't quite the idolatrous you-go-girl portrait one might expect.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 23, 2007

Shut up & Sings shows that it is all about freedom of speech and expression and how we had better not forget it. Freedom of speech, speaking out and having a voice. Yeah! On to the Grammies Dixie Chicks. You go girls!

| Original Score: A | Jul 22, 2007

It isn't a disciplined doco, and the fragmentation of the throughline makes for occasional sags in the film, but the filmmakers mean well.

| Jul 20, 2007

They do make a comeback of course - almost stronger than ever - in this, the best documentary of the year so far. Intelligent, honest, heartfelt and fascinating.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2007

I came round to them by the end, but it's not a great introduction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2007