Critic Reviews

• 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.

• 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.

• Tom Long, Detroit News

  It's both enlightening and a bit messy, but then history is always messy.

• Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

  An astute mix of interviews with artists, critics and experts on the movement.

• Sebastian Smee, Boston Globe

  It's affecting, and the tone, which is polemical, is also rueful and realistic.

• 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.

• Sarah Boslaugh, Playback:stl

  ...a real trip down memory lane for people involved in the early feminist movement in the United States (the soundtrack alone will push your nostalgia button), and a great resource for teaching...

• Stan Hall, Oregonian

  A compelling story emerges of a feminist art movement inspired by the civil rights and anti-war movements, its loosely organized members striving for equality and recognition through guerrilla protest tactics that were in themselves art.

• Kim Voynar, Movie City News

  This doc is real gem -- as relevant to the feminist art movement as Exit Through the Gift Shop was for street art, albeit less flashy in its composition.

• Don R. Lewis, Film Threat

  An important film about the women's art scene which has never really received its due.

• Matt Mazur, PopMatters

  What the director succeeds in doing is constructing a powerful educational tool that incorporates primary documents and oral histories of the women who made the movement, giving them space to finally have their voices heard.

• Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

  [The] footage -- some 125 hours of it -- became perhaps the only known record of an entire movement of art that was otherwise unseen and undocumented.

• Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, Boxoffice Magazine

  A staunch declaration of identification and reverence.

• Kelly Vance, East Bay Express

  Has meaningful things to say about race, class, power, sexuality, and economics as well.

• Mike Scott, Times-Picayune

  These women deserve to have their voices heard, and this film finally lets them have their say.

• Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal International

  Self-described "patchy" documentary about a determined movement of female artists to gain visibility in a male-dominated world pummels with scores of talking heads and archival material.

• Lauren Wissot, Slant Magazine

  Lynn Hershman Leeson introduces us only superficially to her dozens of pioneering friends.

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