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Metascore
20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA gripping documentary that uses voluminous period evidence — unedited news footage, tape recordings of SLA leader Cinque's rants — to brilliantly reconstruct the entire freak event.
- 100Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittA must-see account that casts a harshly illuminating light on a key period of recent American history.
- 90Film ThreatTim MerrillFilm ThreatTim MerrillThe story goes on and on, endlessly fascinating to the last - the sensational trial, the convictions, the revelations, the recriminations.
- 90The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenGathers riveting, rarely seen news clips from the era into a chronology that plays like a suspenseful police drama.
- 80VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerSuperbly researched and constructed, pic is an improvement over last year's "The Weather Underground," which backed away from judging political terror on the left.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThat a ragtag group of intellectuals and misfits could so blindside the FBI and hold the media in its grip is an especially sobering aspect of this dynamically told story.
- 75New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardUses social and historical perspective to explain what happened then and, perhaps inadvertently, what's happening now.
- 70L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasA remarkably clear-eyed look back at a moment in which real revolution seemed possible - even probable - in America's streets.
- Plays out smaller and less climactic than the way anyone old enough to recall will remember.
- 50The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayGuerrilla still holds up as social history, primarily because its description of seething frustration in a divided America has become spookily relevant.