A portrait of controversial political strategist and former Donald Trump advisor, Steve Bannon.... (Full plot summary below)
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A portrait of controversial political strategist and former Donald Trump advisor, Steve Bannon.
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| Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAnyone expecting truth from Bannon is on a fool's errand, and the floating criticism that there's no confessional here is missing the entire point. |
| VoxAlissa WilkinsonMorris’s film is less a takedown of its subject, and more a Rorschach test for its viewers. What you’ll see is precisely what you’re primed to see — and that, not Bannon’s ideas themselves, is the point. |
| IndieWireEric KohnAmerican Dharma delivers a suspenseful and upsetting showdown between one man confident of his cause and another mortified by it. |
| The New York TimesBen KenigsbergCertainly, American Dharma offers no comfort to those disturbed by Bannon or harmed by the policies he has pressed for. But Morris wants to map how Bannon thinks. The movie he has made is less an act of muckraking than it is a psychological thriller, with Bannon its implacable villain. |
| SlateSam AdamsThere’s a striking similarity in how American Dharma and "Fahrenheit 11/9" end, with the confident prediction that a revolution is coming, if it is not already here. Moore and Bannon are talking about opposite insurgencies, but they both see a country on the verge of explosion. Moore wants to light a match, and Morris wants to snuff one out. |
| The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloWhat made this particular project so toxic? Simple: American Dharma is a fundamentally cordial conversation with Steve Bannon. |
| The PlaylistVictor StiffDoes this film say anything liberals and conservatives didn’t already know? Probably not. It does offer a candid, civil, and up-close look at a man championing hard-right (some might say racist) ideals, which is more than viewers get from watching CNN-panel screaming matches and Fox News hagiographies. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungAmerican Dharma is meant to leave its audience shaken, whatever side they’re on. |
| Screen DailyLee MarshallThe result is a fascinating but also in some ways frustrating film, a game of tag that looks resoundingly cinematic but feels like more of a cable or VOD prospect - not least because it lacks the killer punch, the Bannon stumble or revelation that would make American Dharma newsworthy. |
| Film ThreatLorry KiktaHe has the capacity to both enlighten and infuriate simultaneously, making it impossible to take our eyes away from the beautifully shot trainwreck before us. American Dharma is the height of that signature Errol Morris style. |
