Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

If anything it also shows that dissent is a far gone notion in our modern society...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 14, 2007

Director Anthony Giacchino doesn't always relate the tale in the clearest fashion, but his sometimes overly emotional approach... doesn't detract from its essential fascination.

Full Review | Aug 11, 2007

Not exactly blazing cinema, but intellectually riveting.

Full Review | Aug 2, 2007

Until a worthwhile dramatized version of the Camden 28 comes along, this dutiful documentary will suffice.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2007

When it comes to political agitation, the Camden 28 are genuine heroes and deserve to be recognized for what they dared to achieve.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2007

Times have changed, but many of the questions remain the same: How far would you go to stop a war you felt was unjust? Would you break the law if you felt that law to be by nature unlawful?

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 27, 2007

A vivid and impassioned chronicle of unwavering moral courage under extreme duress.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 27, 2007

Their story is inspiring and, all these years later, relevant.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 27, 2007

[Giacchino's] sympathy for his subjects, their cause and the tradition of Christian pacifism is evident yet doesn't cloud the storytelling as he defies viewers not to stand in admiration and ask tough questions of themselves.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 27, 2007

Concise, inventive and unabashedly partisan, The Camden 28 is a small movie that contains multitudes.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 27, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 27, 2007

a dully presented piece of cinema about a truly worthy group of subjects.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 26, 2007

Though the filmmaking is pedestrian, The Camden 28's timeless truths come through with resounding power.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 26, 2007

The Camden 28 not only examines the animating forces of protest, but also the nature of betrayal, forgiveness and, ultimately, compassion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 26, 2007

An unremarkable talking-head docu nudged nearer to must-see status by the remarkable timeliness of its antiwar subject matter.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2007

In revisiting the oppressive measures employed by the FBI during that era, the viewer is treated to a welcome message about the right, if not the duty, to challenge authority, especially in the face of corruption, intransigence and utter arrogance.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 24, 2007

A documentary about a watershed trial in 1973 of some anti-war activists from the Catholic Left who took a stand on the basis of conscience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 24, 2007

Fond, stinging, and finally instructive, the film assembles a comprehensive look back at the actions, arrest, and prosecution of a group of political malcontents (most of them young Catholics and some of them priests) in the summer of 1971.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2007

While no one will mistake director Anthony Giacchino for Michael Moore, the documentarian unfolds the drama of the arrest and eventual not guilty verdict of 28 Vietnam War protesters in 1971.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 24, 2007