Chicago 10 (2008)
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Reviews Counted:77
Fresh:61
Rotten:16
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Brett Morgan's half-animated, half-documentary film is an arresting, sometimes visionary portrait of the historic and chaotic trial.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Brett Morgen follows up his dazzling THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE with another daring, inventive work of nonfiction. CHICAGO 10 tells the raucous story of the trial that resulted after the... [More]
Starring: Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte, Mark Ruffalo
Director: Brett Morgen
Reviews for Chicago 10
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Revisits 1968 as a court room drama, through a fresh cinematic look to avoid period clichés while broadening history's appeal to both boomers and their children. Full Review |
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Chicago 10 isn't perfect, but is required viewing for anyone who wasn't around at the time, if only as a reminder of the effectiveness of citizen action. Full Review |
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7/10 |
Morgan is more interested in recreating the confusing experience of living through those times than in evaluating them in a perspective informed by 40 years of hindsight. Full Review |
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The ultimate lesson? Sometimes you make a noble point by acting like a jackass. Full Review |
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Director Brett Morgen earns high marks for finding a most innovative way to illustrate a regrettable chapter in American history. Full Review |
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6/10 |
...despite its storytelling creativity, it doesn't generate as much inspiration or excitement as I would have expected. Full Review |
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A- |
Chicago 10 is an art-house rarity that manages to visually dazzle while peeling away the layers of this contentious moment in time, giving viewers an eyeful of social unrest and wondrous screen fantasia. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Chicago 10 is that nearly perfect marriage of style -- edgy, different -- to documentary subject: 1968, that seminal year so celebrated in 2008 for changing the America that came after it. Full Review |
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 2.5/4 |
The raw, gritty, real stock footage just doesn't match with the spoof-like quality of the animated trial. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Short on nuance but long on passion, Chicago 10 recreates the gradual boil-over from peaceful gathering to chaos by augmenting ample, close-range footage with the kind of sonic boom that seldom accompanies political documentaries. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Indirectly scolds today's meek populace for letting its war-minded government rage unchecked. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Chicago 10 brandishes enough sickening reality (Chicago police clubbing protestors, etc.) to make the audience gasp with astonishment. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
The Chicago riots may have been our parents' history, but this is not our parents' documentary. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Despite the number in its title, this odd but sometimes entertaining documentary/docudrama hybrid looks at seven defendants who were accused of organizing the protests and orchestrating the resulting mayhem. Full Review |
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3/5 |
A documentary that somehow manages to capture the anarchic spirit of those topsy-turvy times without devolving into anarchy itself. Full Review |
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Makes skillful use of documentary footage to relate what happened in the streets of Chicago, culminating in what was routinely described at the time as 'a police riot.' Full Review |
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A vibrant, unconventional documentary about the conspiracy trial of the so-called inciters of the riots that occurred during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Full Review |
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