87
Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlPorter's film is dramatic, unsettling, despairing, and in the end thrilling -- at some point, it grows from a portrait of this country's problems into a celebration of a possible solution.
- 100The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenGideon’s Army is a bare film with no narrator and a minimal soundtrack. That’s all it needs to grab you by the throat.
- Gideon’s Army is an eye-opening insight into a judicial hellhole world that ordinary citizens can never imagine.
- 80VarietyJohn AndersonVarietyJohn AndersonLike the film itself, Porter’s handful of devoted, charismatic attorneys do a righteous job of reminding people that the accused are innocent until proven guilty, and that the criminal justice system seems otherwise disposed.
- 80New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyNew York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyGideon’s Army does what the best documentaries have always done: It makes us think about something we’d rather not.
- 75The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthPorter's film is not just a stirring testament to those taking on a Herculean task of bringing some sense of fairness and balance to an out of whack structure, but a reminder that there is still a far distance to go before everyone is equally represented in front of lady justice.
- 75HitfixDaniel FienbergHitfixDaniel FienbergWhat Gideon's Army does is make a respectful case on the behalf of a profession that too often gets maligned.