America: Imagine a World Without Her
Lionsgate | Release Date: July 2, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
15
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Overwhelming dislike based on 11 Critic Reviews
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10
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
40
Los Angeles TimesMartin TsaiJul 3, 2014
It's far more invested in elaborate historical reenactments, hypothetical dramatizations and special effects than interviews, research and data. Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJul 5, 2014
What he’s doing, it turns out, is lowering the viewer’s standards of proof for a vigorous return to “2016″ territory, a hatchet job on Obama and Obamacare that tries to tie everything to a 1960s “radical” organizer who might have influenced the president. Read full review
37
Washington PostMark JenkinsJul 2, 2014
America is less successful as a debate, since it isn’t one. D’Souza controls the conversation, and thus goes unchallenged when he tries to make real-world points with make-believe scenarios. Read full review
30
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJul 3, 2014
Dinesh D'Souza's America: Imagine a World Without Her paints a genuinely troublesome portrait of the country — just not at all in the way he intends. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberJul 3, 2014
Here is one more dubious piece of agitprop that will delight the author’s fans and have very little impact on his opponents. Read full review
30
VarietyJoe LeydonJun 30, 2014
For the most part, however, D’Souza gives the impression of someone obsessed with whitewashing any and all dark chapters in U.S. history books. There are times when his defenses and rationalizations come across as almost laughably facile. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiJul 2, 2014
America is like the cinematic equivalent of one of those forwarded e-mails of mostly discredited "facts" that you receive from an uncle and at least those sometimes include family photos or a meat loaf recipe that can be of some value. Read full review
0
The A.V. ClubDavid EhrlichJul 5, 2014
Graced with a hilariously definitive title, America is astonishingly facile, a film comprised entirely of straw man arguments. Read full review
0
The PlaylistGabe ToroJul 2, 2014
It's all fist-pumping anti-thought, consisting of baseless revisionist history and idle contrarianism. Read full review
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Slant MagazineRob HumanickJul 1, 2014
Beholden to the same plethora of taboos, half-truths, and outright lies traded en masse by mainstream conservatism for the last seven years. Read full review
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TheWrapJames RocchiJun 30, 2014
It would be one thing if D'Souza had an idea, or any idea, he could stick to as a through-line in his project. But America isn't a documentary; it's more like the badly-filmed version of a badly-written, meandering op-ed piece from a paper that lacks fact-checking or proofreading. Read full review
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