| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 8, 2006

Rae's reluctance to delve into more complex, personal or specific territory -- with anecdotes, for example -- limits viewer involvement.

Full Review | Mar 30, 2006

By preaching so relentlessly to the choir, this film misses an opportunity to show what got them to sing in the first place.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2006

Despite the rambling finish, however, overall the film is a thought-provoking and graceful portrait of a tenacious peace warrior whose frankness is his greatest weapon.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2006

How could a movie about someone with one of the nation's longest FBI files be this dull?

Full Review | Mar 9, 2006

Politics aside, Trudell plays like an infomercial for its subject rather than a serious examination of the man and his beliefs.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 24, 2006

More tribute than true documentary, Heather Rae's reverential biography of Native American activist John Trudell sells everyone a little short.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 24, 2006

As one of our most prominent and passionate advocates for Native American rights, John Trudell deserves more daring and objective scrutiny than this overly reverent tribute.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 23, 2006

Anyone looking for history lessons from Rae's documentary will have to be patient and alert enough to pick through the poetry.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Feb 21, 2006

[The film is] a rebuke to F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous maxim: It's hard to imagine a more American second act than the one documented here.

| Feb 21, 2006

More hagiography than history, Heather Rae's long-in-production portrait of Native American activist and poet John Trudell has the uncritically admiring feel of authorized biography.

Full Review | Feb 3, 2006

Trudell is an entrancing character and quite camera-friendly. But the film is so one-sided as to put the disinterested viewer on guard, which I don't think is Rae's intention.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2006

Trudell belongs to a strain of documentary biopic wherein one-sided reverence is the principle impetus.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 27, 2006