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100Along with its historical value, The Weather Underground is also a terrific movie, energetic, and articulate. It's the don't-miss documentary of the season.
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90One of the most thought-provoking documentaries of recent times.
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89Proves to be a wonderful reality check.
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88Whether the protest movement hastened the end of the Vietnam War is hard to say, but it is likely that Lyndon Johnson's decision not to run for re-election was influenced by the climate it helped to create.
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88Featuring seasoned warriors reflecting on whether we can best fight violence with violence is enormously compelling.
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88Essential viewing for anyone who wants to know the roots -- and perils -- of modern political dissent.
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Stands as an important film, perhaps even a timely one as once again the United States finds itself enmeshed in fending off a guerrilla war in a faraway land.
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88Offers a welcome perspective, reminding us that extremism in the name of a values system is nothing new -- not even on these shores.
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83Powerful and searching documentary.
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83A perceptive, fascinating and relatively evenhanded look at the most radical arm of the American student rebellion of the Vietnam era.
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80Through masterful editing, nimble music selection and smart use of documentary materials, the filmmakers shake the dust off cultural clichés to provide a provocative survey of the past. It’s a subversively sleek enterprise.
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80A compelling piece of work that turns out to have unexpected relevance to the current world situation.
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80This 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.
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80A smart, absorbing, often exhilarating documentary.
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80Fascinating documentary.
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75The documentary plays it down the middle, neither condemning nor romanticizing the political outlaws, but making sense of who they were and what they did.
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Powerful and surprisingly timely.
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70It's curious that the filmmakers choose to end the story without reporting on Weatherwoman Kathy Boudin's involvement in an ill-fated 1981 robbery of a Brinks truck in New York State.
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70Serves as a fascinating window into an era of radical dissent that now seems centuries past.
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63Notoriety, they won. The revolution, they didn't. That perhaps is the secret message of the film. Dylan was right. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
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60One leaves with barely a clue as to how this group was able to orchestrate a successful string of terror bombings.
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60Assembled in a straightforward, television-style presentation that gets the better of it.
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50Filmmakers 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. That's tougher to swallow than some boomers' claims they didn't inhale.