American Chaos

Name: American Chaos
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 14, 2018
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 52
Cast: James D. Stern, John Ladd, Julio Martinez

2018

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: September 14, 2018 | R

Starring: James D. Stern, John Ladd, Julio Martinez

Summary: For six months before the election, director Jim Stern traveled red states asking about Donald Trump's appeal, and why voters were untroubled by things he had said and done. What he learned was a lesson in the central differences dividing America and the cultural divide that is tearing apart our democracy today. [Sony Pictures Classics]

Director: James D. Stern

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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Richard Roeper

Sep 13, 2018

[Stern] comes across as a sincere presence who is almost too polite and doesn’t challenge some interviewees who make wildly inaccurate and sometimes racist assertions based on ignorant viewpoints. But it could be argued his gentle, respectful style of an effective tool to get his subjects to reveal their true selves. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Sep 6, 2018

It doesn’t take a hectoring Michael Moore or patronizing Dinesh D’Souza to properly account for “what happened” and “who these people are, and why” they supported Donald Trump. It turns out Trump supporters, “in their own words,” is the most damning portrait of them imaginable. Read full review

Michael Rechtshaffen

Sep 13, 2018

While an argument can be made for it being either “too late” or “too soon,” James D. Stern’s American Chaos nevertheless serves as a handy look back on the poll-defying perfect storm that cleared Donald Trump’s path to the White House. Read full review

Todd Gilchrist

Sep 13, 2018

Ultimately, American Chaos isn’t bad, it’s just kind of too late to do any real good. Read full review

Simon Houpt

Oct 11, 2018

Stern pledges to just listen rather than argue, and though what he hears is often bonkers and wholly unsupported by facts, he has compassion, at least for those who are not nakedly racist. Read full review

David Lewis

Sep 13, 2018

Throughout the film, we always feel ahead — way ahead — of the narrator, even if the movie does contain a certain sense of dread for Trump detractors, as the inevitability of the election draws closer. Read full review

Alan Zilberman

Sep 11, 2018

“Chaos” might have been better had the filmmaker revisited his interview subjects now that we are deep into Trump’s presidency. But that would have required additional work. If the film is a testament to anything, it’s Stern’s laziness. Read full review

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Daniellockhart0

Sep 18, 2018

This movie is alright with flaws yes but keeps you in and the movie is kind of boring in some ways and it slows down to a crawl but its still is alright.

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