| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

A long-held cause celebre for leftists the world over, the story of immigrant activists Sacco & Vanzetti is told in Peter Miller's rote documentary as a reference point for the way immigrants are still mistreated in America.

| Original Score: B | Apr 26, 2009

Surprisingly, this is the first nonfiction film to tackle the subject and Miller manages to find the parallels to contemporary times without being too pedantic or heavy-handed.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 14, 2007

Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and the incredible firestorm of outrage generated by their criminal trials have been largely neglected in recent years, but Peter Miller's absolutely engrossing documentary Sacco and Vanzetti brings it all back.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 17, 2007

But even those who might feel that the movie presents a one-sided view of the evidence would have to admit that the trial was a travesty.

Full Review | Apr 5, 2007

A knee-jerk take that may touch many hearts but does not feed or satisfy the mind.

| Apr 2, 2007

The meat-and-potatoes style of Sacco and Vanzetti seems less a failure of imagination than a means of putting in the foreground its intriguing subject matter.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 2, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 31, 2007

| Original Score: 2/6 | Mar 31, 2007

With cases of such importance, it's always a good idea to be reminded every now and then as to how things can go wrong, and justice means that just because a person is guilty of SOMETHING, doesn't mean that it's okay for the State frame them for something

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 31, 2007

Watching the film, it's hard not to feel a cold chill of recognition, particularly when Miller's interviewees discuss immigration, patriotism and war, and civil liberties versus homeland security in a time of national crisis.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 30, 2007

Miller, a New Yorker, uses archival footage, dramatized readings and talking heads, including Sacco's niece and a neighbor of Vanzetti's, to get his point across.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 30, 2007

Miller's film shows how quickly Americans facing perceived foreign threats are willing to ignore basic liberties. Sound familiar?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 30, 2007

[Pic] does a superb job of condensing an overwhelming mass of documentation, archival imagery and artistic representation into a concise yet passionate history lesson whose relevance could not be timelier.

| Mar 30, 2007

| Original Score: A- | Mar 30, 2007

| Original Score: A | Mar 30, 2007

Only 81 minutes long, Sacco and Vanzetti is packed with information.

Full Review | Mar 29, 2007

[Director Peter Miller] shrewdly exposes the monolithic, class-driven legal machinery that sent a pair of innocent, hard-working immigrants to the chair.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2007

An excellent, disturbing documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 29, 2007