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U.S. vs. John Lennon, The (2006) Rank 2 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give U.S. vs. John Lennon, The (2006) a score of 2.8130 out of 4

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Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)

Just in case you were thinking our times are unsettled. ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)

Maxim (Pete Hammond)

A controversial and engrossing look at a 20th century genius under fire. ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at Maxim (Pete Hammond)

Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)

As a big John Lennon fan, I was looking forward to seeing this documentary, but was disappointed by its relative simplicity in scope and presentation. ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)

Los Angeles Times (Sam Adams)

There may not be a moral, but it's a fascinating human story, one that The U.S. vs. John Lennon only begins to tell. ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at Los Angeles Times (Sam Adams)

Film-Forward.com (Kent Turner)

The most attention-getting culmination of recent films focusing on the protest movements of the '60s ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at Film-Forward.com (Kent Turner)

The Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)

We live, as the pundits say, in the United States of Amnesia. Even so, did the makers of "The U.S. vs. John Lennon," an inquiry into our government's bizarre attempt to neutralize the perceived political juice of that famed English singer-songwriter, ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at The Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)

San Diego Metropolitan (Jean Lowerison)

Governments don't like opposition, especially not when engaged in an unpopular war. And no war in U.S. history was less popular than the incursion into Vietnam, a monumental mistake that cost some 57,000 American lives and untold numbers of broken lives ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at San Diego Metropolitan (Jean Lowerison)

New York Times (A.O. Scott)

Makes the case that, in just about every way that counted, Lennon was a better person than Richard M. Nixon. ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at New York Times (A.O. Scott)

WaffleMovies.com (Willie Waffle)

a great retro ride for those who miss those trippy days, but not much of an educational experience. ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at WaffleMovies.com (Willie Waffle)

Pop Syndicate (Stefan Halley)

A frustratingly superficial look at the life of an American icon. ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at Pop Syndicate (Stefan Halley)

Newark Star-Ledger (Lisa Rose)

Imagine a naive, simplistic documentary about the most complex, cynical member of the Beatles. ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at Newark Star-Ledger (Lisa Rose)

Houston Chronicle (Bruce Westbrook)

The film's first half has zero to do with its title, and its second half digs up familiar turf. ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at Houston Chronicle (Bruce Westbrook)

Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

The liberal documentary by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld revisits the legal effort by the Nixon Administration to silence and deport John Lennon and Yoko Ono and in so doing explores the Vietnam-era struggle that so bitterly divided the country, and ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)

The U.S. vs. John Lennon isn't so much a history of Lennon's pacifism as a continuation of it, the last bed-in, so to speak, with contemporary figures like Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky on hand to connect Vietnam with Iraq, President Nixon with ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)

Slant Magazine

avid Leaf and John Scheinfeld's The U.S. vs. John Lennon doesn't strain to be topical: Way before Gore Vidal makes the parallel for us, it's abundantly clear that the filmmakers' account of our Vietnam-era government's meddlesome involvement in John ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at Slant Magazine

Empire Magazine [UK]

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Empire (Damon Wise)

Perhaps not an entirely a faithful portrayal of the era or the great man, but interesting in parts. ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at Empire (Damon Wise)

Tony Medley

Call me a cock-eyed optimist. Whenever I go to a documentary, I hope for even-handedness. That was what I was hoping. But a list of the people interviewed in this documentary, which is advertised as being the story of former Beatle ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at Tony Medley

Boxoffice Magazine

In this Che Guevara t-shirt of a film, the same cliche them and us shadow play that MTV and VH1 stage in everything they produce about the American 1960s is extended so excruciatingly that the era seems to occur year by year in real time. If you've ...read the complete U.S. vs. John Lennon movie review at Boxoffice Magazine

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