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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 40Los Angeles TimesMartin TsaiLos Angeles TimesMartin TsaiIt's far more invested in elaborate historical reenactments, hypothetical dramatizations and special effects than interviews, research and data.
- 38McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreWhat he’s doing, it turns out, is lowering the viewer’s standards of proof for a vigorous return to “2016″ territory, a hatchet job on Obama and Obamacare that tries to tie everything to a 1960s “radical” organizer who might have influenced the president.
- 37Washington PostMark JenkinsWashington PostMark JenkinsAmerica is less successful as a debate, since it isn’t one. D’Souza controls the conversation, and thus goes unchallenged when he tries to make real-world points with make-believe scenarios.
- 30VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonFor the most part, however, D’Souza gives the impression of someone obsessed with whitewashing any and all dark chapters in U.S. history books. There are times when his defenses and rationalizations come across as almost laughably facile.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberThe Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberHere is one more dubious piece of agitprop that will delight the author’s fans and have very little impact on his opponents.
- 30Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzDinesh D'Souza's America: Imagine a World Without Her paints a genuinely troublesome portrait of the country — just not at all in the way he intends.
- 25RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiRogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiAmerica is like the cinematic equivalent of one of those forwarded e-mails of mostly discredited "facts" that you receive from an uncle and at least those sometimes include family photos or a meat loaf recipe that can be of some value.
- 0TheWrapJames RocchiTheWrapJames RocchiIt would be one thing if D'Souza had an idea, or any idea, he could stick to as a through-line in his project. But America isn't a documentary; it's more like the badly-filmed version of a badly-written, meandering op-ed piece from a paper that lacks fact-checking or proofreading.
- 0Slant MagazineRob HumanickSlant MagazineRob HumanickBeholden to the same plethora of taboos, half-truths, and outright lies traded en masse by mainstream conservatism for the last seven years.