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American Dharma offers a fascinating glimpse of a political influencer's public persona - and a frustrating missed opportunity to interrogate his actions and stated beliefs.
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"American Dharma" succeeds neither as journalism nor as portraiture, neither as political critique nor as cultural survey nor as psychological study. Oct 4, 2018 | Full Review…
"American Dharma" succeeds neither as journalism nor as portraiture, neither as political critique nor as cultural survey nor as psychological study.
Richard Brody
The camera stays on Bannon, and what we see is a man who reveals himself even as he thinks he's gaining the upper hand. Sep 21, 2018 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
The camera stays on Bannon, and what we see is a man who reveals himself even as he thinks he's gaining the upper hand.
Sam Adams
American Dharma doesn't just recap a dark chapter in the nation's history. It sounds the alarm for the rest of the world. Sep 6, 2018 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
American Dharma doesn't just recap a dark chapter in the nation's history. It sounds the alarm for the rest of the world.
Eric Kohn
Though stylistically quite different from the director's The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, it shows the same ability to engage the viewer in American politics through a strategy of detached passion. Sep 5, 2018 | Full Review…
Though stylistically quite different from the director's The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, it shows the same ability to engage the viewer in American politics through a strategy of detached passion.
Deborah Young
On the rare occasions when Morris gets around to challenging Bannon (once every 20 minutes or so), Bannon ducks the question, and that's that. Sep 5, 2018 | Full Review…
On the rare occasions when Morris gets around to challenging Bannon (once every 20 minutes or so), Bannon ducks the question, and that's that.
Owen Gleiberman
What Morris does do, though, is more cinematic. He intercuts some of his subject's claims with montages of headlines or media clips that contradict him. Jan 24, 2019 | Full Review…
What Morris does do, though, is more cinematic. He intercuts some of his subject's claims with montages of headlines or media clips that contradict him.
Peter Keough
Morris uncovers that Bannon is less a political mastermind and more of a mythologizer. Jan 23, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Morris uncovers that Bannon is less a political mastermind and more of a mythologizer.
Marshall Shaffer
Though many would argue that Morris' approach to reckoning with the right by giving Bannon an outlet to spread his rhetoric is a misguided mistake, I see it as an opportunity to try to understand one's enemy as a means of self-defense. Dec 5, 2018 | Full Review…
Though many would argue that Morris' approach to reckoning with the right by giving Bannon an outlet to spread his rhetoric is a misguided mistake, I see it as an opportunity to try to understand one's enemy as a means of self-defense.
Jordan M. Smith
I do not have quite so negative a view of [the] film-I thought it aestheticized the information flow of the digital era in interesting ways, and that it gave me a greater understanding of how Bannon thinks and thus a clearer idea of how to subvert him... Oct 29, 2018 | Full Review…
I do not have quite so negative a view of [the] film-I thought it aestheticized the information flow of the digital era in interesting ways, and that it gave me a greater understanding of how Bannon thinks and thus a clearer idea of how to subvert him...
Lindsay Zoladz
If anything, we should be thanking Errol Morris, who sat across from Stephen Bannon for days on end listening to his stories - so we didn't have to. Oct 18, 2018 | Full Review…
If anything, we should be thanking Errol Morris, who sat across from Stephen Bannon for days on end listening to his stories - so we didn't have to.
Jordan Hoffman
The most frustrating part of "American Dharma" is that Morris lets Bannon off too easily. When he critiques him, Bannon either doesn't respond or ducks the questions. Oct 10, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The most frustrating part of "American Dharma" is that Morris lets Bannon off too easily. When he critiques him, Bannon either doesn't respond or ducks the questions.
Joey Magidson
Morris does a terrific job deconstructing how the past determines our present and future. Unfortunately, his thesis is also wrapped up in a profile of Steve Bannon. Oct 10, 2018 | Full Review…
Morris does a terrific job deconstructing how the past determines our present and future. Unfortunately, his thesis is also wrapped up in a profile of Steve Bannon.
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
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