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05/12/07
Al Franken: God Spoke (2006)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:11
Rotten:7
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: This documentary traces Franken's transformation from humorist to activist with entertaining, if uneven, results.
Theatrical Release:Sep 13, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: From his USO tour in Iraq, to the studios of liberal radio network Air America and on the campaign trail, filmmakers Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus are granted entre to one of the most effective... [More]
Starring: Al Franken, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Michael Medved
Director: Nicholas Doob, Chris Hegedus
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Reviews for Al Franken: God Spoke
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Top CriticThis film by Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus forces us to make some decisions about him. For myself, I find him generally gross, in person and in manner.
10/26/06
Top CriticA documentary in search of a story.
10/06/06
Top CriticOften entertaining.
10/06/06
Top CriticWhat this documentary lacks in intent, insight, and surprise it makes up for in thoroughness.
10/06/06
Top CriticFranken doesn't allow the knee-jerk predictability of his liberal pronouncements to deflate the great gasbag that he becomes as the movie proceeds.
10/05/06
Top CriticMost of this doc is content to wander through Franken's recent show-biz resume, to no particular end.
10/05/06
Top CriticA sketchy but often entertaining record of satirist Al Franken's campaign to counteract what he perceives to be a right-wing conspiracy of lies and disinformation.
09/28/06
Top CriticThe filmmakers capture Franken's gradual transformation from cool satirist to impassioned activist in what turns out to be a vérité amble through a pivotal year in his life.
09/21/06
Top CriticOffers a portrait of this complex man that is -- dare we say it? -- fair and balanced.
09/21/06
Top CriticFans of Franken as a comedian and/or as an Air America radio host, will find plenty to enjoy.
09/20/06
Top CriticBut Kerry did not win, and for Franken fans, the target audience here, the memory of that event may hurt too much to laugh.
09/15/06
Top CriticProves to be an illuminating (if perhaps unintended) demonstration of how hard it is to keep one's sense of humor when mixing it up in the political mainstream.
09/14/06
Top CriticThe film is worth seeing for footage of Bill O’Reilly seeking sympathy from Ann Coulter, who makes maternal noises with a mischievous glint in her eye.
09/14/06
Top CriticThere is a lot of preaching to the converted in Nick Doob and Chris Hedges' Al Franken: God Spoke, an adoring and fairly haphazard look behind the scenes with the comedian and liberal gadfly.
09/13/06
Top CriticThe film is most compelling for its suggestion of how politics and showbiz are at once incestuously entwined and, perhaps, irreconcilably different.
09/13/06
Top Critic... best viewed as an investigation of the phenomenon of ideological celebrity, with Mr. Franken as a willing case study.
09/12/06
Top CriticThe film only sporadically succeeds in providing biographical information or thematic depth, but Franken is such a witty and thoughtful presence that these flaws don't matter greatly.
07/06/06
Top CriticA cinema-verite portrait that proves more celebratory than revelatory.
03/13/06
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