America: Freedom to Fascism
Cinema Libre Studio | Release Date: July 28, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
5
Negative:
3

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Law-abiding Americans who hand off a solid chunk of their salaries to the IRS might be interested in what filmmaker Aaron Russo has to say on the subject of income tax. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianMarc Mohan
Mostly it's about taxes -- namely, the argument that the Federal Income Tax, enacted in 1913, is unconstitutional and has been ruled as such by the Supreme Court, and that no law exists today requiring Americans to pay it. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Provocative but also infuriating, this alarmist documentary argues that the levying of a federal income tax in 1913 was unconstitutional and set America on the road to fascism. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Unfortunately, while the film has some fascinating and compelling arguments, it quickly assumes the tone of an angry diatribe rather than a well-reasoned political discussion. Read full review
50
VarietyLeslie Felperin
The strong case built in pic's first half is weakened by the vaguely argued contention in the second that the land of the free is becoming anything but. Attack focuses on the Federal Reserve, the Patriot Act, the abolition of the gold standard, and not-yet-ratified plans to introduce identity chips on currency and in citizens in the future. Read full review
40
Village VoiceLuke Y. Thompson
From the tax debate, the documentary suddenly gets scattershot, going after the Patriot Act, laws against vitamin sales, election fraud, and Hurricane Katrina response (apparently a plot to grab people's guns), building to the standard New World Order line, which discredits any valid points Russo may have. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
It’s good to see that passionate cinematic rabble-rousing does not rest solely in the hands of the left. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMark Olsen
The film raises more questions than it could possibly hope to answer fully, devolving from an intriguing look at an enticingly obscure issue into a more broadly based mess. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Aaron Russo's America: Freedom to Fascism can't even think straight, it's so mad. Read full review
30
The New York TimesNathan Lee
The mess we're in never looked so messy. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Gives the Michael Moore muckraking-underdog treatment to the kind of delirious conspiracy theories generally associated with mentally ill homeless people screaming at passersby to stop stealing their brainwaves. Read full review
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