Filmmaking-wise, it should be forever celebrated for its inspired and highly influential editorial structure.

| Jan 9, 2025

Hearts and Minds is a difficult and powerful anti-war documentary which depicts horrific events as well as cataloguing equally disgusting attitudes.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2022

Hearts and Minds remains a brutal, eye opening piece that mixes 60s style direct cinema with honest and balanced interviews columnating in a work of activist non-fiction that falls unapologetically in the anti-war camp.

| Nov 4, 2020

Though you could accuse the film of being heavy-handed... it's impossible not to feel its punch to the gut.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2020

The faces, intonations, backgrounds of Hearts and Minds -- even its small gestures and sometimes very long pauses -- speak as eloquently as its words.

| Feb 10, 2019

Throughout, Hearts and Minds displays more than enough heart. It is mind that is missing.

| Feb 8, 2018

It operates to arouse hatred against hatred, to induce a gut reaction against gut reactions, and by so doing serves to sustain a morbid emotionalism of the very sort it claims to abominate.

| Feb 6, 2018

has not lost its power to provoke and challenge our conventional understanding of patriotism and the necessity of war

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 29, 2014

A cry of despair made by a person whose viewpoint hadn't yet been soundly vindicated.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 2, 2014

It's a cinematic essay of constant movement and provocation, a record of one man finding his way through the fog of war.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 23, 2014

Provocative Vietnam War docu with violence, racial slurs.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 24, 2012

Peter Davis' Oscar-winning feature is a must-see documentary about Vietnam.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 22, 2012

... the first film to confront exactly what the United States did in Vietnam in the name of fighting communism and winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people.

| Nov 18, 2010

The urgency of Hearts and Minds, its anger and its articulation, its insistence that effects of war be visible, and its cogent analysis of connections among politics, media, and the military, all seem apt lessons for today.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 7, 2009

Davis' visual argument overwhelms rationality.This was the beginning of Red/Blue antagonism -- turning benighted patriotism against an opponent's humanity.

| Mar 25, 2009

It's Michael Moore's favorite documentary. See it anyway.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 21, 2009

The definitive Vietnam War documentary and arguably the greatest political documentary ever made.

| Mar 20, 2009

Quite simply, one of the greatest non-fiction films ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 20, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2009

Hearts and Minds is an essay told in a voice of thinly controlled moral outrage, which sometimes dribbles over into seething hate.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 19, 2009