Critic Reviews

The variety of physical perspectives lends a vivid you-are-there aspect to this record of the Zuccotti Park protest in New York in 2011.

This gripping, innovatively constructed flashback commands attention.

What is shocking is seeing the aggressive and malicious response to the movement.

If you grant the documentary its slanted perspective at the outset, it works well as its own state-of-the-union address.

Until someone delivers the definitive 360-degree chronicle on the populist uprising, this collection of dispatches from the front is the best primer you could hope for.

A documentary as messy as the movement it tries to portray, 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film possesses energy, passion and about a dozen documentaries inside it yearning to breathe free.

Ultimately, the filmmakers are more interested in congratulating Occupy for taking a stand than in shedding light on its fascinating infrastructure and backstory, as though a protest’s existence automatically spells victory for its cause.

The visual images are manipulative and simplistic; like the verbal ranting, they are devoid of depth.