
A wake-up-call documentary that exposes the hidden history of our country's redistricting wars, mapping battles that take place out of public scrutiny but that shape the electoral landscape of American politics for decades at time, posing a threat not just to democrats and republicans, but democracy as a whole.... (Full plot summary below)
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A wake-up-call documentary that exposes the hidden history of our country's redistricting wars, mapping battles that take place out of public scrutiny but that shape the electoral landscape of American politics for decades at time, posing a threat not just to democrats and republicans, but democracy as a whole.
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| San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoWhile the film adopts a sometimes jaunty tone, the fact is that gerrymandering is bad news, assuming you believe that elections should mean something. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanArnold Schwarzenegger appears as the rare politician who supports reform in this timely exposé of how our democracy has slipped off its tracks. |
| WaffleMovies.comWillie WaffleReichert has to come up with some way to draw us in, and does so, for the most part, with some very entertaining, shocking and dastardly tales of gerrymandering to the extreme |
| Filmcritic.comChris Barsantiunable to clearly and succinctly identify the problem it has wrapped its eighty-odd minutes of thinly-developed footage around |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenAn illustrated civics lesson that strains to make its complicated, shadowy subject - electoral redistricting - a political hot topic. |
| Boxoffice MagazineMark KeizerThere is so much wrong with the political system at this point that gerrymandering, in which politicians shamelessly redraw electoral boundaries to rig the outcome of elections, seems almost quaint. |
| Village VoiceMichelle OrangeIt gets complicated: Re-districting in Chicago gave Obama a clear advantage in his Senate election, an inconvenient truth that Reichert leaves open to debate. A clearer example of gerrymandering's mendacity is offered by Tom DeLay, who rides his black heart into yet another political documentary and fills, as ever, the role of the indisputable villain. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinDespite much archival and news footage, along with ample face time from that initiative's most ebullient supporter, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the contest lacks the kind of inherent drama and tension that could have helped quicken the movie's measured pulse. |
| Film Journal InternationalEric MonderAn important political subject gets sincere but slick treatment |
| Moving Pictures MagazineAnnlee EllingsonReichert for the most part succeeds with a subject that's hard to get excited about. |