God Bless America Reviews
The Patriot Ledger
It takes dead aim at the culpability of hate-mongering politicians, the religious right and reality TV stars in making the United States the meanest, rudest country in the world.
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| Original Score: B
Cinema Crazed
A brilliant, fearless, and merciless indictment of American culture, and how we've become the lowest common denominator
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| Original Score: 4/4
We Got This Covered
Bobcat Goldthwait's God Bless America works well as a black comedy and as a satirical look at pop culture and human behavior.
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| Original Score: 7/10
ABC Radio (Australia)
It's an intriguing satirical idea, and it works very effectively in places, while being tremendously didactic and heavy-handed in others.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Sicko one-trick pony film, whose black comedy is tiresome and mostly unfunny.
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| Original Score: C
3AW
Enjoyable, over-the-top, and nowhere near as black as the premise sounds, God Bless America is essentially an extended comic op-ed piece.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Laramie Movie Scope
It's a wonderful movie, spoofing and shooting all the worst things about our failing civilization, from the Tea Party, to vicious talk show hosts ...
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| Original Score: A
At the Movies (Australia)
If you can take that premise, I think you'll go along with the film and it's really, in its very weird way, quite funny.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
At the Movies (Australia)
It's not that you don't sympathise with the characters' sentiments it is, though, that you can't actually go along with their agenda.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Age (Australia)
Gory, unfunny satire that deserves a prize for the most strained provocation of the year.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
2UE That Movie Show
God Bless America opens strong but finishes with a preachy bludgeoning.
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| Original Score: 3/5
FILMINK (Australia)
Though hilariously funny and luridly hypnotic, God Bless America is quite possibly the angriest and saddest film of the last ten years.
Urban Cinefile
A sobering comedy, a darkly comic tragedy and a socially valuable scream that demands our attention (and that of the Americans). He shows that deep down, for all the whoops of God Bless America across the nation, it's actually 'godless America'
Urban Cinefile
Although it promises much, the film ultimately fails to deliver the substance, with the stream of deadly bullets making a goddamn mess but never quite hitting the artery
NECN
For a movie that purports to be a statement about how mean-spirited and crass we've become, Goldthwait has no qualms piling on. Blowing a baby away with a 12 gauge - real or imagined - is about as bottom of the barrel as it gets.
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| Original Score: F
The Aristocrat
...any film that has the balls to show an incessantly crying baby being blown away with a shotgun will always, unequivocally, get my vote.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Examiner.com
[Goldthwait's] shown he has a knack for writing films with strange lead characters whose morals you will question, but whose exploits you will want to follow to the end.
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| Original Score: 3/4
sbs.com.au
God Bless America is most effective as a big, loud 'f*** you' to those responsible for breaking the spiritual back and socio-political might of a great empirical democracy; the joke being that those responsible are the movie's key demographic.
Irish Times
Murray and Barr make for winning platonic chemistry even when Frank suspects himself of impure thoughts. Goldthwait holds his nerve as the film shifts from ennui to malevolent gleefulness.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema em Cena
Embora não seja engraçado como acredita ser, a honestidade do roteiro em sua frustração com a futilidade contemporânea é algo refrescante em meio a tantos projetos sem personalidade ou ponto de vista.
| Original Score: 4/5
