Hearts and Minds (re-release)
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5.8 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 6 Ratings

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  1. RitB
    Dec 28, 2006
    1
    This film is as much a documentary as is Mel Brooks' movie: History of the World Part 1. I'm a Vietnam vet and thought the war was a mistake when I was there, and still feel that way. I thought I might learn something by seeing this movie but all I learned was how NOT to make a documentary film. This was so biased and so slanted in an effort to make it's 'war is bad�39; message, that it borders on the absurd and it insults the viewer's intelligence. The critics who praise this movie have the IQ of tree bark.… Expand

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Metascore
68 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
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  1. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Don Druker
    90
    A masterful documentary, one of the most unsettling discussions of Vietnam and its aftermath ever to appear in any medium.
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  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    The problem is that the film is at such pains to make its points that it doesn't trust us to find our own connections.
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  3. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Anthony Lane
    50
    Hearts and Minds, which gives no clue that atrocities were committed by the other side, and which allows Davis to cut from a rampaging football game, back home, to the Tet offensive, will be a lesson to anybody who thinks that Michael Moore invented the notion of documentary as blunderbuss.
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