What happened on January 6, 2021 is an event that should never have happened.

| Jan 6, 2022

Vivid and meticulous, Four Hours emerges as a cautionary tale about the might of the mob, with a pathetic sidebar of teargas-stained Maga hats kept as souvenirs.

| Oct 27, 2021

Outstanding.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2021

The underlying collective testimony furnished by Four Hours at the Capitol is that the age of Trump has not yet ended - and the true day of reckoning in the United States is still to come.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2021

A powerful documentary that takes no sides...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 23, 2021

Definitely the horror movie of the month, if not the year...

| Oct 22, 2021

Four Hours lets its subjects speak without interjection or correction, a decision that seems to respect its audience's ability to reason out the logical gaps.

| Oct 22, 2021

A documentary that doesn't have the stomach to tell the story of what happened on Jan. 6 explicitly, and to express the real threat to American democracy that that day represents, is of no use to anybody.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 21, 2021

One can hardly refer to a collection of such potent footage as uninteresting, but its assembly here leaves much to be desired.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 21, 2021

The imagery of destruction and assault is powerful on its own terms; it's in building the story of the participants' motives and actions that Four Hours at the Capitol falters, making what could have been a definitive document into a deeply flawed one.

| Oct 20, 2021

As right wing gaslighters increasingly pretend the attempted insurrection of Jan. 6 didn't happen, wasn't as bad as the media says, or isn't worth Steve Bannon's time to testify about, it's helpful to see the full fury of the day in the new documentary.

| Oct 20, 2021

Perhaps what comes through most vividly, beyond the sheer chaos that day, is the simmering anger that many legislators and others still feel, as well as their lingering shock that such a lapse could have taken place.

| Oct 20, 2021

This singularly gripping work, timely for obvious reasons, is eloquent testimony to American political life today.

| Oct 20, 2021

The filmmakers will be criticized by some for giving oxygen to such views but the film's point is clear -- the strange calm of the advocates for violence is presented alongside footage of the barbaric fighting, as a subversion of their serenity.

| Oct 20, 2021

Even a corner of this nightmarish story is unsettling to watch and worthwhile purely to prevent that day from slipping into the ether. But there are too many inevitable gaps and exclusions to keep Four Hours at the Capitol from feeling essential.

| Oct 20, 2021

Officer Mike Fanone arrives to help hold the tunnel, and events take a terrifying turn. Yet, against the odds, an extraordinary, almost unbelievable moment of grace occurs.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 20, 2021

Even if you think you know what happened that day, this superb documentary will show you that you had no idea how close we all came to losing a core part of what the country allegedly stands for.

| Oct 19, 2021

Four Hours At The Capitol puts us inside the twisted minds of the insurrectionists who attacked the seat of government, but at no point are viewers compelled to sympathize with them.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 18, 2021

There's no filler here, just the facts from both sides of the divide.

| Oct 15, 2021