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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:8
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.3/10
Runtime: 82 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Peter Miller directs this documentary about two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of murder in 1920 and executed seven years later. As Tony Shalhoub and John Turturro read the men's... [More]
Starring: Tony Shalhoub, John Turturro, Studs Terkel, Arlo Guthrie
Director: Peter Miller
Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and the incredible firestorm of outrage generated by their criminal trials have been largely neglected in recent years, but Peter Miller's absolutely engrossing documentary Sacco and Vanzetti brings it all back.
Top CriticThe meat-and-potatoes style of Sacco and Vanzetti seems less a failure of imagination than a means of putting in the foreground its intriguing subject matter.
Top CriticMiller, a New Yorker, uses archival footage, dramatized readings and talking heads, including Sacco's niece and a neighbor of Vanzetti's, to get his point across.
Top CriticMiller's film shows how quickly Americans facing perceived foreign threats are willing to ignore basic liberties. Sound familiar?
Top Critic[Pic] does a superb job of condensing an overwhelming mass of documentation, archival imagery and artistic representation into a concise yet passionate history lesson whose relevance could not be timelier.
Top CriticOnly 81 minutes long, Sacco and Vanzetti is packed with information.
Top Critic[Director Peter Miller] shrewdly exposes the monolithic, class-driven legal machinery that sent a pair of innocent, hard-working immigrants to the chair.
Top CriticA bit pedantic, but thorough and interesting throughout, a must for history buffs.
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