Citizen Koch

Name: Citizen Koch
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Released: June 6, 2014
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 52

2014

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Variance Films | Release Date: June 6, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: Citizen Koch investigates the impact of unlimited, anonymous spending by corporations and billionaires on the electoral process, featuring stories of life-long Republicans whose loyalty is tested when their families become collateral damage in the GOP fight to take organized labor out at the knees.

Director: Carl Deal and Tia Lessin

Genre(s): Drama, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Michael O'Sullivan

Jun 19, 2014

If you have a shred of idealism left, it’s hard to watch Citizen Koch without a mounting sense of despair and outrage over the influence that money has come to wield over modern elections. Read full review

Wes Greene

Jun 3, 2014

Like their earlier Trouble the Water, Carl Deal and Tia Lessin portray men and women yearning for a simple place in society as they become casualties to the self-involvement of larger forces. Read full review

Joe Williams

Jun 19, 2014

For real balance, the debate needs fiercely leftist truth-tellers in tri-corner hats, calling themselves the Organic Chai Tea Party. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

May 19, 2014

Some material in the docu feels repetitive or unnecessary. But the main problem is that “Citizen Koch” simply juggles too many themes and narratives to cohere. The result is largely compelling in the moment, but unsatisfying as a whole. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jun 26, 2014

Citizen Koch is pure advocacy doc: brisk and clear-eyed, to be sure, but not likely to surprise headline-savvy moviegoers or angered progressives. Read full review

Duane Byrge

Jun 5, 2014

While one might agree or disagree with their theme, aesthetically Citizen Koch is feisty. Read full review

Alan Scherstuhl

Jun 3, 2014

Carl Deal and Tia Lessin's scattershot agitprop doc takes the perfidy of the billionaire Koch brothers as its given, offering up montages of Tea Party screamers rather than investigative reporting or rigorous argumentation. Read full review

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salaciouscrum

Dec 23, 2014

One of the most important docs that you almost never saw, this film takes a hard look at how elections and issues can be bought and paid for with money in the U.S.

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