Let Fury Have the HourMovie Reviews

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  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Gary Goldstein

    Kudos to writer-director Antonino D'Ambrosio for taking such an eclectic and disparate number of aims, thoughts, subjects and mediums and creating the smart and inspiring - and uniquely whole -documentary that is Let Fury Have the Hour. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Ronnie Scheib

    A curiously warm-and-fuzzy hindsight interpretation of artistic aggression, delivered by the artists themselves. Read full review

  • 70
    Village Voice |

    The film joyfully surveys the evolution of a politically informed artistic movement, set to a soundtrack that includes MC5, Rage Against the Machine, DJ Spooky, and others. Read full review

  • 60
    The Hollywood Reporter | John DeFore

    Feel-good documentary gathers great interviews but isn't sure what they add up to. Read full review

  • 50
    Slant Magazine |

    On a political level, the film is far from a Godardian dialectic, so the view of history that emerges is, to say the least, blinkered. Read full review

  • 50
    New York Post | V.A. Musetto

    The film is one-sided and at times unfocused, but it makes a lot of sense politically. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Jeannette Catsoulis

    Infinitely less than the sum of its parts, Antonino D'Ambrosio's Let Fury Have the Hour crams 50 thoughtful artists into a disappointingly muddled film. Read full review

  • 40
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    The result is undoubtedly impassioned. But it's also so blinkered and self-congratulatory that it feels like an undergraduate thesis project. Even if you relate to the cause, you may find yourself frustrated by the effort. Read full review

  • 40
    Time Out New York | David Fear

    More of a massive back-patting for bleeding hearts than a comprehensive-or even semi-comprehensive-survey of DIY protest art, the film unintentionally makes the perfect valentine for the OWS version of radicalism: It's righteous, full of rage and cripplingly unfocused. Read full review

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