The unnerving brilliance of the film owes to the director's skill at assembling information and allowing it to speak for itself.

A masterful documentary, one of the most unsettling discussions of Vietnam and its aftermath ever to appear in any medium.

A powerful piece of documentary filmmaking.

Built to outrage, appall, and indict.

Davis, who won an Oscar for Best Documentary, may not have agreed with presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon on the war, but he heeded Johnson's call to fight for hearts and minds. His aim was dead on target.

The problem is that the film is at such pains to make its points that it doesn't trust us to find our own connections.

During his clumsiest moments, Davis' fondness for provocation rises to the surface, which is unfortunate, since it weakens the impact of his many salient points about how American men are socialized to be warriors.

Hearts and Minds, which gives no clue that atrocities were committed by the other side, and which allows Davis to cut from a rampaging football game, back home, to the Tet offensive, will be a lesson to anybody who thinks that Michael Moore invented the notion of documentary as blunderbuss.