The Trial of the Chicago 7
Oscar-winning scribe Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) writes and directs this historical thriller centred on seven people on trial who face charges related to the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The star-studden line-up includes Academy Award winners Eddie Redmayne and Mark Rylance alongside Oscar nominees Sacha Baron Cohen and Frank Langella as well as Golden Globe nominee Joseph Gordon-Levitt and rising star Alex Sharp (How to Talk to Girls at Parties).
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The Guardian
pressHe [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.
Slant Magazine
pressIt pulses with relevancy in a time when debates over authoritarianism, protests, and the necessity of radicalism are convulsing America.
IndieWire
pressThe Trial of the Chicago 7 is exactly as advertised — a giant, giddy burst of earnest theatricality, loaded with a formidable ensemble that chews on every inch of the scenery, that overall makes a passionate case for the resilience of its formula more than using it as an excuse.
Entertainment Weekly
pressChicago 7 frames the past not just as entertaining prologue but a living document; one we ignore at our own peril.
Slash Film
pressFrom a movie-making perspective, The Trial of the Chicago 7 is sturdy but not particularly revelatory. But as a delivery system for great performers rattling off great dialogue, it’s almost unbeatable.
Variety
pressAaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 is the rare drama about the 1960s that’s powerful and authentic and moving enough to feel as if it were taking place today.
The Guardian
pressHe [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.
Slant Magazine
pressIt pulses with relevancy in a time when debates over authoritarianism, protests, and the necessity of radicalism are convulsing America.
IndieWire
pressThe Trial of the Chicago 7 is exactly as advertised — a giant, giddy burst of earnest theatricality, loaded with a formidable ensemble that chews on every inch of the scenery, that overall makes a passionate case for the resilience of its formula more than using it as an excuse.
Entertainment Weekly
pressChicago 7 frames the past not just as entertaining prologue but a living document; one we ignore at our own peril.
Slash Film
pressFrom a movie-making perspective, The Trial of the Chicago 7 is sturdy but not particularly revelatory. But as a delivery system for great performers rattling off great dialogue, it’s almost unbeatable.
Variety
pressAaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 is the rare drama about the 1960s that’s powerful and authentic and moving enough to feel as if it were taking place today.
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