Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations

Name: Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 21, 2020
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 57

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Dark Star Pictures | Release Date: February 21, 2020 | Not Rated

Summary: Antisemitism in the US and Europe is spreading. It mutates and evolves and is seemingly unstoppable. It appears as vandalism, social media abuse, assault and murder. Director Andrew Goldberg examines its rise traveling through four countries to follow antisemites and their victims, along with experts, politicians and locals.

Director: Andrew Goldberg

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 84 min

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

Feb 17, 2020

“Viral” is a sobering reminder that hatred of “the other” didn’t disappear after Pogroms and The Holocaust, and that it isn’t limited to jihadists and skinheads. Read full review

Andrew Stover

Mar 9, 2020

A brutally candid and well-intentioned documentary that exposes the modern faces of those embroiled in antisemitism. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

May 26, 2020

The documentary is eye-opening and very much worth seeing, even though it can’t help but be disheartening. Read full review

Todd Gilchrist

Feb 20, 2020

Ultimately, “Viral” feels like the sequel or second season in a series where a first (or at the very least, a recap) would have been helpful. As a topic of tremendous ongoing importance with roots that desperately need exploration, anti-Semitism deserves, and needs, a look into its global impact and perpetuation that makes a deeper dive than this documentary provides. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Fagerholm

Feb 21, 2020

There’s no question that Islamophobia is also on the rise around the globe, and this film — however inadvertently and well-intentioned — plays directly into it. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Feb 20, 2020

Although touching on a multitude of aspects of its disturbing subject matter, it never really digs particularly deep into any of them, with the result that it ultimately proves unsatisfying Read full review

Teo Bugbee

Feb 20, 2020

The trouble with this skimmed approach is that by sidelining historical analysis, the film denies its audience the best defense against distortion, a rational necessity when interpreting a conversation that often seems to happen in code. Read full review

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May 26, 2020

Winded, compulsory... what's the word? Opposite of urgent, opposite of relevant. Of today's issues, where Black men get lynched live on video; immigrant children are forced into cages; baby's are taken from parents; governments methodically kill their citizens in exchange keeping theirWinded, compulsory... what's the word? Opposite of urgent, opposite of relevant. Of today's issues, where Black men get lynched live on video; immigrant children are forced into cages; baby's are taken from parents; governments methodically kill their citizens in exchange keeping their economies open... I tried, truly tried. I understand the producers having massive clout and can get former presidents at the snap of their fingers for this type of documentary... but not enough to get me to watch it through.… Expand

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