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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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10/07/06
As if anticipating bad reviews, Russo ends his scattershot assault with a preemptive strike against the media: 'It's just the Federal Reserve System trying to save itself.' If you buy that line, then I'm the great-grandson of a 1913 conspirator.
07/28/06
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
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 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
Lies, damn lies and statistics. It's pure propaganda.
08/05/06
While the film -- which Russo produced, directed, edited and wrote -- has some fascinating and compelling arguments, it quickly assumes the tone of an angry diatribe rather than a well-reasoned political discussion.
08/07/06
An unconvincing doc that hardly justifies the view that the U.S. is headed toward fascism.
06/03/06
There is food for thought here. But Russo loses his grasp on the material once he expands his focus.
10/06/06
[Russo] has created such an inflammatory piece of clumsy propaganda it's hard to take his best arguments seriously.
07/27/06
Top CriticRusso's brand of libertarianism is at best naive and at worst tin-foil-hat crazy.
10/05/06
Top CriticLibertarian-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
[The film builds] to the standard New World Order line, which discredits any valid points Russo may have.
07/25/06
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
A hurricane of accusations and grievances, supported by repetitive, droning sound bites.
07/28/06
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
Aaron Russo's America: Freedom to Fascism can't even think straight, it's so mad.
07/27/06
Top CriticThe mess we're in never looked so messy.
07/28/06
Yes, America: Freedom To Fascism gives the Michael Moore muckraking-underdog treatment to the kind of delirious conspiracy theories generally associated with mentally ill homeless people screaming at passersby to stop stealing their brainwaves.
07/27/06
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