Welcome To Leith

Welcome To Leith (2015)

Welcome To Leith

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Average Rating: 7.7/10

Reviews Counted: 44

Fresh: 43

Rotten: 1

Critics Consensus: As disturbing as it is thought-provoking, Welcome to Leith offers an uncomfortable -- and essential -- glimpse into a part of society many Americans would much rather ignore.

Average Rating: 7.4/10

Reviews Counted: 13

Fresh: 13

Rotten: 0

Critics Consensus: As disturbing as it is thought-provoking, Welcome to Leith offers an uncomfortable -- and essential -- glimpse into a part of society many Americans would much rather ignore.

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Average Rating: 3.8/5

User Ratings: 836

Critic Consensus: As disturbing as it is thought-provoking, Welcome to Leith offers an uncomfortable -- and essential -- glimpse into a part of society many Americans would much rather ignore.

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Movie Info

'Welcome to Leith' is a feature documentary chronicling the attempted takeover of a small town in North Dakota by notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb. Filmed in the days leading up to Cobb's arrest for terrorizing the townspeople on an armed patrol and his subsequent release from jail six months later, the film is an eerie document of American DIY ideals.

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Documentary
Directed By:

Christopher K. Walker, Michael Beach Nichols
Written By:

Christopher K. Walker, Michael Beach Nichols
In Theaters:

Sep 9, 2015 limited
Box Office:

$36,010
Runtime:

85 minutes
Studio:

First Run Features

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Critic Reviews for Welcome To Leith

All Critics (44) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (1) | DVD (2)

As a short sketch of a fading culture, this is fascinating.

February 9, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Top Critic

Welcome to Leith is a sober, terrifying look at the very real monsters roaming the quiet countryside.

November 23, 2015 | Full Review…

New York Magazine/Vulture

Top Critic

Has the gut-punch impact of a chilling thriller.

November 12, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Top Critic

Indeed, this could be the scariest film of the year.

November 5, 2015 | Full Review…

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

Tense, incisive, and remarkably objective ...

November 5, 2015 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Top Critic

Hand it to directors Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker, who could have made the story into a black-hat/white-hat affair.

October 29, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Walter V. Addiego

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

In the end, this documentary, which has the mood of a Hollywood thriller, is about a plan that failed...Nothing hurts like failure.

August 23, 2018 | Full Review…

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

You come away from the film realizing that nothing Cobb could ever do to these people is as bad as what they do to themselves out of fear, which may have been his plan all along.

October 11, 2017 | Full Review…

The Public (Buffalo)

Do not miss this true-life thriller.

September 15, 2017 | Full Review…

Easy Reader (California)

Welcome to Leith shows what Can Happen Here, though instead of the old warning "watch the skies," those who can stomach it will have to keep their eyes on hate-speech websites.

August 8, 2017 | Full Review…

This is true-storytelling par excellence.

January 2, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Paul M. Bradshaw

Welcome to Leith delivers a psychological horror film, one more compelling and politically relevant than your average fiction offering in the genre.

February 22, 2016 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

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