Four Hours at the Capitol
HBO | Release Date: October 20, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
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2
Negative:
1
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100
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzOct 14, 2021
This singularly gripping work, timely for obvious reasons, is eloquent testimony to American political life today. Read full review
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The PlaylistChristian GallichioOct 20, 2021
Somber, depressing, and ultimately a must-watch, “Four Hours” moves through that fateful day with precise clarity – toggling between the lawmakers and those within the mob as the situation grew increasingly dire. Read full review
91
The A.V. ClubStephen RobinsonOct 15, 2021
After watching Four Hours At The Capitol, the January 6 attack feels more like a horror film, one that ends with the monster still at large. Read full review
90
CNNBrian LowryOct 20, 2021
Four Hours at the Capitol might be unlikely to change many hearts or minds, but watching the evidence months removed from the heat of the moment and the chaos that unfolded live on TV makes it difficult to entertain arguments that the media has overblown or misrepresented those images. Read full review
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Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertOct 19, 2021
Perhaps some viewpoints WILL be changed by watching this documentary, which carries no distinct political slant and employs an old-fashioned “fly on the wall” technique, thus allowing the footage and the comments from participants on both sides to speak for itself. Read full review
80
The GuardianLucy ManganJan 21, 2022
The underlying collective testimony furnished by Four Hours at the Capitol is that the age of Trump has not yet ended – and the true day of reckoning in the United States is still to come. Read full review
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The TelegraphAnita Singh Jan 21, 2022
The anger of the protesters that day was clear but in this documentary they were a variety of calm, smug and deluded. It was the police and politicians who were the angry ones. Read full review
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VarietyDaniel D'AddarioOct 21, 2021
The imagery of destruction and assault is powerful on its own terms; it’s in building the story of the participants’ motives and actions that Four Hours at the Capitol falters, making what could have been a definitive document into a deeply flawed one. Read full review
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IndieWireSiddhant AdlakhaOct 28, 2021
The film’s focus remains largely on the crowd — not the forces that pull and push at it, contort its shape, and determine its movement through space and history, but rather, the crowd as mere spectacle, divorced from all the things that paved its path to the Capitol. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOct 18, 2021
A documentary that doesn’t have the stomach to tell the story of what happened on Jan. 6 explicitly, and to express the real threat to American democracy that that day represents, is of no use to anybody. Read full review
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