[Russo] has created such an inflammatory piece of clumsy propaganda it's hard to take his best arguments seriously.
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07/27/06
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America: Freedom To Fascism (2006)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:8
Rotten:22
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: This documentary about the American income tax and whether citizens must pay it is more of a scattershot diatribe than a persuasive argument.
Theatrical Release:Jul 28, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $61,200
Synopsis: Paying taxes ranks pretty highly on most people's "Least Favorite Things To Do" lists, but according to filmmaker Aaron Russo, U.S. citizens aren't actually legally obliged to pay federal income... [More]
Starring: Aaron Russo, Sherry Peel Jackson, Irwin Schiff, Dave Champion
Director: Aaron Russo
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Reviews for America: Freedom To Fascism
Top CriticJust as the film’s arguments start growing persuasive, Russo (who also narrates the movie) undermines his work by freefalling into a tangled web of all-out conspiracy-mongering.
07/27/06
If America: From Freedom to Fascism is right only 10 percent of the time, we're in big trouble.
07/28/06
If Russo really wanted to attract an audience, he should have called this: Why You Don't Have To Pay Taxes! Now that's a title that would get people in the seats.
10/06/06
Libertarian-positioned docu argues almost persuasively that U.S. citizens are not legally required to pay federal income tax, and much less convincingly that country is becoming a police state via new identity laws.
06/02/06
Top CriticRusso is a clearly a healthy minded skeptic who tries to get both sides of the story.
07/28/06
Russo appears to make a good case against the IRS, but he does so sneakily, belligerently, and from a grotesquely unattractive soap box.
07/20/06
This movie is so humorless that it makes you wax nostalgic for the good old days when Michael Moore was sticking it to the man.
08/04/06
Russo feels his direction of this film is a brave, seditious deed. The audience I was surrounded by at an advance screening agreed.
08/06/06
An unconvincing doc that hardly justifies the view that the U.S. is headed toward fascism.
06/03/06
A hurricane of accusations and grievances, supported by repetitive, droning sound bites.
07/28/06
Filmmaking lapses aside, this is an impassioned and generally persuasive film that rings all too eerily true.
07/28/06
The mess we're in never looked so messy.
07/28/06
Top CriticRusso's brand of libertarianism is at best naive and at worst tin-foil-hat crazy.
10/05/06
Top CriticLies, damn lies and statistics. It's pure propaganda.
08/05/06
Russo comes off as a paranoid ranter, the movie equivalent of the street-corner pamphleteer with tinfoil in his hat to keep out the gamma rays.
10/06/06
If it's true, we're all due a monumental refund; if not, Russo and his cohorts may want to start looking for write-offs.
09/29/06
repetitive and completely self-serving, with Russo making a serious of specious arguments that are largely laughed at by his serious subjects
04/02/07
Essentially the filmmaking equivalent of an enraged blog on the Web -- pointed and provocative, but not exactly a comprehensive source for the issues it addresses.
09/28/06
Top CriticAaron Russo's America: Freedom to Fascism can't even think straight, it's so mad.
07/27/06
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