This Ain't No Heartland
Autlook Filmsales | Release Date: March 10, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
2
Negative:
3

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
What emerges most strongly, though, is a staggering degree of ignorance among everyday Americans about the basic meanings of democracy, liberty, and national security. [20 Aug 2004, p.15]
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Horvath has a sensitive eye and ear, mixing good-looking shots of the barren landscape with portraits of the land's eccentric inhabitants. It's a world (scary at times) that most New Yorkers have no idea exists. [25 Aug 2004, p.40]
60
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Registers as frighteningly typical and indicates how successful the Bush administration has been at convincing Americans that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 and armed with weapons of mass destruction. Read full review
40
VarietyRussell Edwards
Given Horvath's multi-tasking, pic is unsurprisingly rough. Nonetheless, for a professional photographer, his DV lensing is disappointing. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen Holden
In the filmmaker's nightmarish view, the heartland is a decaying citadel of ignorance, boorishness and xenophobia, smugly rotting away in the twilight of the American empire. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
This is as cheesy and irrelevant as political documentaries get. Horvath, who is openly critical of the invasion of Iraq, makes game of a handful of Iowans and Nebraskans who are either too dumb, too drunk or too uninterested to have an informed opinion about it. Read full review
10
Village VoiceJoshua Land
One might expect some insight into nationalist propaganda from This Ain't No Heartland, which opens with a Goering quotation, but Austrian director Andreas Horvath's scattershot film is more interested in advancing the thesis that Midwesterners are all dumb hicks. Read full review
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