Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
| Release Date: July 15, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Overwhelming dislike based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Movie NationRoger MooreJul 27, 2016
D’Souza, naif to American history that he is, could have done a real service instead of being another right wing Pied Piper leading the lemmings off a cliff. He could have asked “What happened to Our/My Republican Party?” and giving blunt, truth-spoken-to-power answers. He’d rather trash the America that GOP policies in large part created. Read full review
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New York PostKyle SmithJul 15, 2016
Cheesier than a Kraft Singles truck but half as subtle, Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party is an attack on all things Democratic whose many valid points get buried under bluster Read full review
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TheWrapSam AdamsJul 15, 2016
"Hillary’s America” isn’t designed to stand up to skepticism. It’s not intended to convince or to provoke thought, but to confirm the biases its intended audience already holds. Read full review
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Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJul 27, 2016
In the past, I’ve given D’Souza the benefit of the doubt, going out of my way to be extra objective. I actually gave “2016: Obama’s America” a somewhat positive review in 2012 (3 out of 5 stars). But this thing is madness. Read full review
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The GuardianJordan HoffmanJul 19, 2016
Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party is the cinematic equivalent of a drunk man at a sports bar sucking back whole jalapeño peppers hoping for applause without ever being dared. The amusement in watching doesn’t compensate for the pity one feels for someone so desperate for attention. Read full review
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The Seattle TimesTom KeoghJul 21, 2016
D’Souza manipulates viewers’ passions while telling them who to blame for their bile. As for Hillary, D’Souza asserts she wants to nationalize all our industries and steal all our money. His lack of evidence undercuts his message. Read full review
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Slant MagazineClayton DillardJul 15, 2016
The film is an incoherent and aesthetically barren harangue masquerading as a revisionist history lesson. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenJul 21, 2016
D’Souza might be preaching to the choir, but at least this voter recruitment tool could have aspired to something more challenging than an amateurishly slapped-together rehash. Read full review
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VarietyOwen GleibermanJul 15, 2016
"Hillary’s America” is a slow-motion seizure of ideological rancor, served up in the filmmaker’s trademark style of wide-eyed schoolbook infamy. The only novelty here is that there’s been a subtle shift of emphasis in the D’Souza vision. It’s now really all about him. Read full review
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The New York TimesGlenn KennyJul 21, 2016
According to a certain interpretation of the auteur theory, a film’s value derives from the extent to which it communicates the personality and character of its director. Judged by that standard alone, I suppose “Hillary’s America” is some kind of masterpiece. Read full review
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Washington PostAlan ZilbermanJul 21, 2016
D’Souza may wish to tilt the election, but he’ll be lucky if his fans can make it through his film without falling asleep. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubVadim RizovJul 20, 2016
That a film already busy with historical reenactments, interviews, and conspiracizing of the wildest sort should end with three consecutive musical numbers suggests a kind of vaudeville structure to D’Souza’s work. Read full review
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Austin ChronicleLouis BlackJul 20, 2016
Uninterested in persuasion or education, this third documentary by Dinesh D’Souza is designed to aggressively reinforce prejudices and hostilities among true believing conservatives as it offers a “history” of the deliberately evil, completely corrupt, America-hating Democrats. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJul 20, 2016
Utterly lacking nuance and any sense of proportion, the irresponsible film depicts Democrats not as possessing misguided political ideas but rather as "depraved crooks" and "hateful people." Read full review
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ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerJul 19, 2016
Hillary’s America is repugnant, and while it exists to get people who stand against it yelled at as much as anything, it’s essential that D’Souza not simply be written off as a hack pandering to a willing and lucrative audience regardless of the moral implications, though he is. D’Souza peddles the kind of “media” that’s become cancerous to the country he unyieldingly purports to worship. Read full review
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IndieWireDavid EhrlichJul 19, 2016
As a documentary determined to damn the Democratic Party, “Hillary’s America” is a profound failure of unprecedented proportions, an embarrassment for Republicans, Americans and pretty much the rest of humankind. As a parody of right-wing conspiracy theorists, this knotted spiderweb of ideological garbage is practically “Citizen Kane.” Read full review
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RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiJul 15, 2016
Little more than an extended version of the kind of political screeds that can be found online with only a minimum of effort, this is just a terrible movie. Read full review
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