Gideon's Army
Trilogy Films | Release Date: June 28, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
87
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New York TimesStephen HoldenJun 27, 2013
Gideon’s Army is a bare film with no narrator and a minimal soundtrack. That’s all it needs to grab you by the throat. Read full review
100
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJun 25, 2013
Porter's film is dramatic, unsettling, despairing, and in the end thrilling -- at some point, it grows from a portrait of this country's problems into a celebration of a possible solution. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterDuane ByrgeJun 18, 2013
Gideon’s Army is an eye-opening insight into a judicial hellhole world that ordinary citizens can never imagine. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyFeb 16, 2016
Gideon’s Army does what the best documentaries have always done: It makes us think about something we’d rather not. Read full review
80
VarietyJohn AndersonJun 18, 2013
Like the film itself, Porter’s handful of devoted, charismatic attorneys do a righteous job of reminding people that the accused are innocent until proven guilty, and that the criminal justice system seems otherwise disposed. Read full review
75
HitfixDaniel FienbergFeb 16, 2016
What Gideon's Army does is make a respectful case on the behalf of a profession that too often gets maligned. Read full review
75
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthJul 8, 2013
Porter's film is not just a stirring testament to those taking on a Herculean task of bringing some sense of fairness and balance to an out of whack structure, but a reminder that there is still a far distance to go before everyone is equally represented in front of lady justice. Read full review
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