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American Dharma
Directed by
Errol Morris
R
2019
1h 35m
Documentary
,
Biography
7.0
61%
73%
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A portrait of controversial political strategist and former Donald Trump advisor, Stephen Bannon.
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Cast of American Dharma
Steve Bannon
Self
Errol Morris
Self / Director / Producer
Donald Trump
Self (archive footage)
Andrew Breitbart
Self (archive footage)
Anthony Weiner
Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Hillary Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)
P.J. van Sandwijk
Producer
Marie Savare
Producer
Robert Fernandez
Producer
Steven Hathaway
Producer
American Dharma Ratings & Reviews
FilmWeek (LAist)
Peter Rainer
There's just not enough poking around in the Bannon-verse by Morris.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The movie's worth taking in, though, as a shaky confrontation with a very American kind of demon, one weaned on the shallow, heroic lies of Hollywood individualism, furious that life rarely works that way, and willing to wreck the house in response.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Kid-glove treatment of the former Donald Trump advisor is surprising coming from the hard-hitting interviewer of Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Give 'em enough rope, as they say. It's become increasingly fashionable to twist or ignore facts, but it's still important to present them for all to see.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Bannon has trafficked in racism, far-right conspiracy theories and other controversies during his career. Morris brings up some of it... but rarely nails Bannon with a tough follow-up question.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
American Dharma is a vivisection, and [ Errol] Morris gives Bannon the tools to do it himself.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"American Dharma" is the gospel according to Stephen K. Bannon - a feature-length conversation with the Trump White House's former chief political advisor that is both more interesting and more depressing than you might be expecting.
TheWrap
Todd Gilchrist
Where Klayman's film was anecdotal, letting Bannon hang himself with his arrogant disingenuousness, Morris' feels more intellectually rigorous - an interrogation that, by comparison, may not come across strongly enough to some as an indictment.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
It's the journalistic equivalent of Muhammad Ali's rope-a-dope strategy, and while Bannon is far too media-savvy to be one of Morris' best subjects, he doesn't clamp down tight, the way Rumsfeld did.
America Magazine
John Anderson
Morris does not lead you by the hand. If the subject is lying, or delusional, as he often seems to be, Morris presumes the viewer will notice.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
A rather florid, disjointed conversation, one where Morris' attempts to challenge and confront Bannon feels mostly cathartic for the filmmaker, ultimately, without yielding much additional insight to understanding Bannon that hasn't already been said.
RogerEbert.com
Peter Sobczynski
A frustratingly hollow look at Bannon that is ultimately so benign in its portrayal of the man that it comes closer to an example of fan service than a full takedown.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
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.
Slant Magazine
Pat Brown
The film feels rather like listening to the arsonist calmly explain why he set the fire as we continue to watch it rage.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
"American Dharma" succeeds neither as journalism nor as portraiture, neither as political critique nor as cultural survey nor as psychological study.
Vanity Fair
K. Austin Collins
What the director cannot seem to do... is get Bannon to reveal anything of himself that the man isn't already willing to tell us.
Slate
Sam Adams
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.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
[Morris] occasionally pushes back against Bannon, in a way he didn't in the earlier films, and sort of has to - if Dharma suffers in comparison, it's because it's telling a story that's still in progress.
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
American Dharma isn't a dismantling of Bannon's ideologies. It's a portrait of delusion.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
American Dharma doesn't just recap a dark chapter in the nation's history. It sounds the alarm for the rest of the world.
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