Chicago 10

...Chicago 10 is a hugely entertaining piece of popfluff, as dynamic and modern as the Beastie Boys cut on the soundtrack.

...[with] a zippy mixture of documentary footage and motion-capture animation, we see how the confrontations between police and protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention played out as political theater.

Chicago 10 is a reminder of a time when the counter-culture was out on the street making noise—a history lesson so removed from our present political climate it feels almost like science fiction.

...this is a retelling of the trial of 10 Vietnam War protesters on conspiracy charges during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

A slippery, sensational take on the past, the movie is premised on its own sort of charge, that history is always subjective and a matter of limited view, that its status as fact and fixed narrative is overstated.