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

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

| Feb 8, 2018

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

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

Not only the definitive American documentary about the war in Vietnam but a landmark political action.

| Mar 17, 2009

There is much interesting and exclusive interview material from American militarists and policymakers, and most notably a previous French president, to compensate for the overall mood of chest-beating remorse.

| Jun 24, 2006

Still shocking, still powerful, still prudent. What is it they say about the more things change?

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

Hearts and Minds is a tough film but it is no mere rehash of sad events. It is always aware of the primacy of man when man's given even half a chance.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2005

A reminder of how the best documentaries can resonate years after their release.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2004

We're bludgeoned by the point of view, we don't like the feeling of manipulation we get. Yet there are scenes here of incredible power, even for a nation which watched this war on television every evening.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

It's one of the best documentaries ever made, a superb film about the thoughts and feelings of the era, the whole festering, spirited animus of it.

| Oct 22, 2004

Davis's film seems as much a prosecution of the present as it is of the recent past; only the names and geographies have been changed.

Full Review | Oct 19, 2004

The unnerving brilliance of the film owes to the director's skill at assembling information and allowing it to speak for itself.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 24, 2004

Now more than ever. The time has never been more appropriate for a re-screening of this Oscar-winning documentary about America's involvement in Vietnam.

| Mar 10, 2003

A masterful documentary, one of the most unsettling discussions of Vietnam and its aftermath ever to appear in any medium.

| Jan 1, 2000