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08/19/09
Outrage (2009)
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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:42
Rotten:13
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Outrage walks a difficult moral and ethical line -- and not always successfully -- but despite its flaws, it's a fascinating, provocative look at homosexuality in American politics.
Theatrical Release:May 8, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $193,175
Synopsis: With OUTRAGE, provocative documentarian Kirby Dick (THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED) confronts his most controversial topic yet. In his latest piece of cine-journalism, Dick exposes what he deems to be... [More]
Director: Kirby Dick
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Reviews for Outrage
By Republican-bashing on big topics like gay marriage and AIDS-funding, [director Kirby] Dick avoids exploring ideas. Outrage diminishes crucial, non-partisan gay-identity issues of fear, guilt and self-acceptance.
05/06/09
One can at least partly embrace the concept that outing pols who torpedo gay rights is defensible and still find Dick's film too frequently a would-be sensationalistic bit of tut-tutting for queer Dems and their politically-connected friends.
05/03/09
comprised primarily of insinuation, hearsay, and conjecture... Dick ends up taking on the worse attributes of the people he is, quite openly, judging
05/07/09
The examples trotted out in Outrage are so old that if you're interested in this topic, you read about them on the Internet years ago.
06/19/09
I'm guessing "Outrage" ultimately is meant to continue the discussion about equal rights for gay Americans, and in that sense the film does succeed.
05/08/09
[A] passionate, engaging, but sometimes irresponsible exposé.
05/29/09
Thoughtfully persuades, but never shocks.
04/28/09
Hypocrisy? Your call.
05/08/09
Top CriticWhile the film is full of some very cogent arguments, there are major flaws in his case.
11/24/09
The film's pretty good about saying why so much in the culture encourages a political life in the closet, either tacitly or directly. But even The Advocate had a problem with calling it a brilliantly orchestrated conspiracy.
05/29/09
Top CriticBy letting others do the heavy lifting, the filmmaker comes off as more than a little reticent, a quality in tune with the overall tone of his latest.
05/08/09
The media is accused of a vast conspiracy to keep these politicans closeted, and without a shred of evidence. So the drive to name names stops here, while ridiculing the wives caught up in these at times manufactured scandals, as gullible buffoons.
05/10/09
It would be nice if the film had less of [McGreevey] and even more on some of its lying politicians. And was willing to entertain, at least for a moment, the idea that other motives might be at work than simple, internalized self-hatred.
05/08/09
Top CriticAs public officials, do closeted politicians deserve to be outed? The targets of Kirby Dick’s provocative documentary are branded by their hypocrisy, making them -- in the eyes of those represented here -- fair game.
05/08/09
This indignant and methodical documentary offers a lot of insight into the ideology and psychology of present-day political homophobia.
05/08/09
Top CriticWhile never quite managing to be the fully successful onslaught he intends, there is enough here to spark a general debate about the way homosexuality is marginalised thanks to self-deluding and self-serving politicos.
05/01/09
A brave, provocative and thoroughly compelling exposé that you'll be talking about for weeks.
05/09/09
A well-documented cautionary tale that should spark broader discussion of the integrity of those making our laws, and the larger implications of living a closeted life.
05/07/09
It's an excellent film that has the potential to stand at a turning point in history and it's a must-see.
05/22/09
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