Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 14, 2007

The Weather Underground leaves the viewer with many questions. To the filmmakers' credit, most of them are the right and urgent ones to ask.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 31, 2003

Directors Sam Green and Bill Siegel expertly limn the forces that gave rise to Weatherman and clearly sympathize with the group's motivations. At the same time, they don't stint on Weatherman's follies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 24, 2003

Whose side the documentarians are on is never clear -- in a muddy rather than an ambiguous way. Did anyone die from the Weathermen's bombings? We don't find out here.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 17, 2003

Thought-provoking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 1, 2003

An eye-opening look at idealism taken to extremes during one of the most turbulent periods of American history.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 25, 2003

A remarkable journey.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2003

What's forceful about The Weather Underground is how effectively the filmmakers convey the violent zeitgeist of those years.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 4, 2003

A compelling piece of work that turns out to have unexpected relevance to the current world situation.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 28, 2003

Essential viewing for anyone who wants to know the roots -- and perils -- of modern political dissent.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 22, 2003

A fascinating window into American political history.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2003

A smart, absorbing, often exhilarating documentary.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2003

The Weather Underground chronicles those early days of idealism, and their transition into a period when American society seemed for an instant on the point of revolution.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 1, 2003

What it needs is more context, social and psychological.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 31, 2003

A powerful and searching documentary.

| Original Score: A | Jul 29, 2003

Powerful and surprisingly timely.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2003

This terrifically smart and solid piece of filmmaking lets the former Weathermen, now in their 50's and older, speak into the camera and reveal a bit of their personal histories as well as what the peace movement meant to them.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2003

Filmmakers Sam Green and Bill Siegel tend to shy from tough questions, allowing their subjects to wax nostalgic about bomb-throwing as yet another youthful folly of the '70s.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 5, 2003

Sam Green and Bill Siegel's often gripping documentary manages to evoke the particular quality and extent of the madness that possessed many Americans during the course of the longest foreign war in the nation's history.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2003

With respect to its title subject, the infamous splinter group of the nonviolent Students for a Democratic Society, pic is unaccountably soft.

| Feb 27, 2003