By rejecting the view of the SLA as folk heroes, Stone presents a compelling document of a misguided political movement that epitomizes the butt end of the protest movement come the mid-1970s.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 24, 2019

A gripping documentary that uses voluminous period evidence ... to brilliantly reconstruct the entire freak event.

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Urban terrorism inspired by Robin Hood.

| Jan 15, 2006

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

A gripping, thought-provoking film that works as both a thriller and a social document.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2005

British director Robert Stone takes a dispassionate look at this circus, and his retelling of events makes the situation more complicated than I remembered.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 8, 2005

The footage is astonishing, revealing the events of 30 years ago and some scary truths about where the world is today.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 6, 2005

A mostly compelling and exceedingly fair-minded look back at the case.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 25, 2005

Fine as far as it goes -- a worthy lesson in counter-culture history and the rise of media hysteria.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Mar 25, 2005

Younger audiences will receive the kind of modern-history lesson that's never taught in school.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 17, 2005

Guerrilla is so dull that it almost makes you wonder what was all the fuss about the Symbionese Liberation Army.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2005

Sometimes a documentary is only as good as the interviews the filmmaker gets. ... [and] those who could provide insight to Hearst's ordeal are either dead or not talking.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2005

Unlike the recent Weather Underground, which dealt with another group of '60s radicals and showed us where they are today, Guerrilla is content with the surface of this story.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 10, 2005

A meticulous and often fascinating reconstruction of a chaotic time.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 28, 2005

Demonstrates the tragic lengths that unhinged revolutionaries will go to when ordinary political change seems impossible to achieve.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 28, 2005

The twists of the story are still gripping and director Robert Stone does a solid job of assembling the information for a moviegoing generation to whom the mid-'70s are ancient history.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 27, 2005

A fascinating reminder of the level of political discontent in America during the early 1970s.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 14, 2005