| Netflix | Release Date: September 25, 2020 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
|
Positive:
43
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
|
Watch Now
| Stream On |
|
Critic Reviews
Sep 24, 2020
The Trial Of The Chicago 7 wants to bottle the revolutionary spirit of its setting—the take-to-the-streets idealism of the ’60s—but its snappy montage-glimpses of demonstrations verge on costume-party kitsch. The movie is at its best and most persuasive in the courtroom, when Sorkin can draw on the clashes of ideology and personality.
Read full review
The Film StageSep 25, 2020
Sorkin doesn’t face these evils for more than a moment at a time. He doesn’t even try to convert the uninitiated, but his movie thinks it does. His script and direction gaze rather than observe, and by the time the score swells and the requisite title cards inform the viewer of its leads’ fates, The Trial of the Chicago 7 has brought virtually nothing to light.
Read full review
The GuardianSep 24, 2020
He [Sorkin] can also become fantastically ponderous, bloated with finger-waggingly self-important liberal patriotism. Sadly, that is the tone with this exasperatingly dull, dramatically inert and faintly misjudged re-creation of the “Chicago Seven” trial in the US, which Sorkin has written and directed.
Read full review
Current Movie Releases
By MetascoreBy User Score
