n a time such as ours, Dolores delivers a vision of community organization and social flourishment that can usher in a new reality for America’s masses.

| Dec 6, 2023

Using a mix of talking heads and an unprecedented amount of on-the-front-lines footage, Bratt has created a compelling, joyous documentary that takes pains to avoid the hagiographic leanings of similar films.

| Mar 24, 2020

Watch it to celebrate and be inspired.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 18, 2019

This well-made documentary goes a way towards righting that wrong in the case of Huerta.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 26, 2019

This documentary's not exactly perfect, but it's thorough, sincere and real and a great primer if you're one of the many to whom her name is unfamiliar.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Mar 28, 2018

This film is a must for you and your family. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 14, 2018

First a pioneer and now an icon, Dolores Huerta is above all a woman committed, as ever, to the many causes she has championed throughout her life.

| Jan 25, 2018

[Peter Bratt] deftly edits together archival footage and interviews with Huerta's children, co-workers, collaborators, and Huerta herself. He backs it with a jazz and salsa soundtrack and tells the story with zest and clarity.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 28, 2017

It's a powerful, provocative filmmaking that could potentially inspire a new generation of Dolores Huertas.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2017

[An] essential documentary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2017

Using powerful archive material, the film chronicles Huerta's life and triumphs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2017

Modern US history gets a bracing rewrite with Dolores...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2017

Seem[s] fairly formulaic with its linear narrative and mixture of talking heads with archive footage, but it is significant both in raising the profile of a woman too long overlooked and crucially in giving her back control over her own story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 30, 2017

This documentary about pioneering activist and union organizer Dolores Huerta tells an all-too-familiar story of a vastly talented woman who achieved greatness, only to be finally kicked aside and forgotten by men in power, because she is a woman.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 16, 2017

Dolores is only interested in getting the activist recognition, and it serves as an entertaining overview of the staggering things Huerta has accomplished.

| Oct 27, 2017

If you've never heard of Dolores Huerta, it's because there's been a concerted effort to erase her from the history books, a racially motivated slight the fascinating documentary "Dolores" determinedly seeks to correct.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 8, 2017

Dolores is ultimately straightforward, insightful and should be credited for presenting a broad look at a woman many find heroic, and others find polarizing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2017

This splendid film recognizes the legions of men and women who stood with Dolores in challenging the slave wages, inhumane working conditions and sexism.

| Oct 6, 2017

With Dolores, we're getting the lesson we deserve.

| Oct 6, 2017

What's clear is that after watching Dolores, this woman becomes an unforgettable figure in the annals of Mexican-American history...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 5, 2017