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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonMakes compelling, provocative and prescient viewing. You can draw your own conclusions.
- 88Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisIn ''Trials,'' Hitchens is almost endearing, stalking Kissinger from one event to the next like a bleary-eyed Michael Moore.
- 88New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsThe Trials of Henry Kissinger serves as both a prosecution brief on the above charges and an unauthorized biography.
- 88Miami HeraldMarta BarberMiami HeraldMarta BarberPuts you on edge about what goes on behind the closed doors of the White House. Even if the case against Kissinger is not fully convincing, the documentary keeps you glued to your seat and thinking long after you've left the theater.
- 80Los Angeles TimesManohla DargisLos Angeles TimesManohla DargisBluntly effective.
- 78Austin ChronicleMarrit IngmanAustin ChronicleMarrit IngmanThe film is sufficiently methodical and well-researched to walk the walk behind its controversial premise. More to the point, it's terribly involving, intriguing enough to hook documentary-shy viewers.
- 70The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyThe movie feels not only like a trial but like a trial in absentia. [7 Oct 2002, p. 108]
- 70Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumProvides a valuable refresher course in our less-acknowledged methods of meddling in the affairs of other countries.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanWatching this film, one is left with the inescapable conclusion that Hitchens' obsession with Kissinger is, at bottom, a sophisticated flower child's desire to purge the world of the tooth and claw of human power. The movie isn't, finally, an argument. It's a long angry ''Boo!''
- 60Dallas ObserverAndy KleinDallas ObserverAndy KleinTwo minor drawbacks: Onscreen IDs of speakers are sometimes omitted. And Kissinger's crimes seem almost paltry in comparison to current American policies.