Exterminate All the Brutes
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 7, 2021
User Score
5.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 40 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 40
  3. Negative: 19 out of 40
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  1. Thelog32
    Apr 9, 2021
    10
    This is essential viewing. Plain and simple. No other group of people has created so much global havoc. The colonialist empire that spread from west from Europe and south from the United States is responsible for sustained atrocities that have lasted centuries. If you subscribe to the ideologies of American exceptionalism or euro-centric exceptionalism then you will not like this series,This is essential viewing. Plain and simple. No other group of people has created so much global havoc. The colonialist empire that spread from west from Europe and south from the United States is responsible for sustained atrocities that have lasted centuries. If you subscribe to the ideologies of American exceptionalism or euro-centric exceptionalism then you will not like this series, as your entire world view is based on a lie. If you are open to trying to understand the complexity of our current global situation and how capital has been a catalyst for genocide then you will gain a lot out of what is here.… Expand
  2. Cinemacriterion
    Apr 9, 2021
    10
    This is a fantastic documentary and a must see for everyone. Bravo to everybody involved.
  3. hharvey102
    Apr 17, 2021
    10
    This is the way history should be presented. Sadly, seeing the negative user reviews shows we are doomed despite such efforts to enlighten.
  4. kevjot
    Apr 24, 2021
    10
    Hard to watch at times. European culture contributed much to the world, but it seems many of us still refuse to accept the reality of the countless less-than-glorious things (to put it mildly) that at our ancestors did, and how brutal it was. The pushback in the user reviews speaks volumes.
  5. jagermeister
    Aug 31, 2021
    10
    “To accept one’s past—one’s history—is not the same thing as drowning in it,” “it is learning how to use it.”

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Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Alissa Wilkinson
    Apr 9, 2021
    100
    From a pure filmmaking perspective, Exterminate All the Brutes may be unparalleled among TV docuseries; the closest I can think of is the complexity and contextualization evident in the 2016 Oscar-winning 10-part series O.J.: Made in America. Peck doesn’t rely on tired visual tropes or techniques that would make it easy to just put on the show in the background while you’re doing something else. He demands our attention with wit, craft, and well-placed anger.
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  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Stephen Robinson
    Apr 9, 2021
    100
    The documentary feels fresh and current next to the ongoing debate over America’s past and iconography. ... What we do with the knowledge we gain from this amazing work is the question that Peck leaves unanswered.
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  3. Decider
    Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Apr 7, 2021
    80
    Despite starting off a bit all over the place, Raoul Peck’s Exterminate All The Brutes has a lot to say about a part of Western civilization’s history that absolutely needs to see the light of day.
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