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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlOne of the year's best films, Mary Dore's She's Beautiful When She's Angry is an urgent, illuminating dive into the headwaters of second-wave feminism, the movement that — no matter what its detractors insist — has given us the world in which we live.
- 100San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleTo think of how people thought and acted just 45 years ago is to realize that the women in this film were the advance guard of the modern era. That makes them important, and they make this documentary important.
- 90SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirDore does not gloss over the ideological excesses or internal quarrels of feminism, but more than anything else she captures the excitement of that era, the growing sense of solidarity as more and more women discovered that their dissatisfaction was not an individual matter.
- 90Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenLos Angeles TimesSheri LindenShe's Beautiful When She's Angry, director Mary Dore's incisive portrait of so-called second-wave feminism of the late 1960s, is an exceptional chronicle, its mix of archival material and new interviews bristling with the energy and insight of one of the most important social movements of the 20th century.
- 80The New YorkerThe New YorkerThe updating of the story is thin; some dramatizations, though short, are distracting, but the over-all impression, of a time of constant meetings and conversations that gave voice to stifled frustrations and united untapped energies, remains visionary and heroic.
- 80VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyIt’s to the credit of “She’s Beautiful” that it seems neither hectic nor glib despite the enormous amounts of material that doubtless had to be excluded to fit a single feature’s frame.
- 70The New York TimesRachel SaltzThe New York TimesRachel SaltzAs filmmaking, “She’s Beautiful” is meat and potatoes: It gets the job done without frills.
- 63Washington PostAnn HornadayWashington PostAnn HornadayWith its awkward reenactments and other stylistic clunkers, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry doesn’t break much formal ground. But it serves as a moving reminder of how crucial citizen action is in fomenting social change.
- 60The GuardianJordan HoffmanThe GuardianJordan HoffmanDespite the desultory nature of the film, it is sure to hammer home some key points.