!Women Art Revolution 2010

Tom Long, Detroit News: It's both enlightening and a bit messy, but then history is always messy. Read more

Rachel Saltz, New York Times: Passionate, contentious, funny, sincere, politically attuned. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: To see this seismic subculture memorialized with such an amazing trove of archival clips is worth tolerating pretentious blather; you feel like you're bearing witness to a monumental act of reclamation. Read more

Sebastian Smee, Boston Globe: It's affecting, and the tone, which is polemical, is also rueful and realistic. Read more

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Contrasting with the ferment of the times, the film is orderly and rather subdued, but it's an excellent introduction to a movement that produced artists as diverse as Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, and Miranda July. Read more

Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter: Rich portrait of the Feminist Art Movement. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: An astute mix of interviews with artists, critics and experts on the movement. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Good politics, bad filmmaking. Read more

G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: By the end of the film, you'll be searching out the work of Judy Chicago, Sheila de Bretteville, Faith Ringgold, Miranda July and the Guerrilla Girls, among many others. Read more

John Anderson, Variety: Anyone seeking a dialectic, of course, can look elsewhere, but Hershman Leeson's film is a valuable resource on a movement whose issues remain relevant. Read more

Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: !Women Art Revolution moves briskly, unfolding as one lively sit-down after another with artists, scholars, and curators who established themselves at the height of second-wave feminism. Read more

Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: We weren't all there watching the struggle take place, and a more clearly stated thesis or a simple delineation of cause and effect could have gone a long way. Read more