Review of American Dharma (2019) by Jpk — 06 Dec 2019

A Look Into A Dangerous Man.

This look into Steve Bannon is well made and terrifying.

This review of American Dharma (2019) was written by Jpk on 06 Dec 2019.

American Dharma has generally received positive reviews.

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By Sam Adams (514) for Slate (2,081) on 13 Sep 2018

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 13 Nov 2019

Anyone 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…

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Bannon is an intriguing figure, a former liberal who went to Harvard Business School and did a hitch in the Navy…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 31 Oct 2019

There are personal fragments of interest here; it’s useful to see how a man like Bannon narrates the story of himself, mythologizes himself,…

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By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 08 Sep 2018

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By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 31 Oct 2019

In giving rope to Bannon and hoping that he’ll hang himself, we’re instead forced to watch him fashion a lasso and play at being John Wayne,…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 31 Oct 2019

American Dharma succeeds neither as journalism nor as portraiture, neither as political critique nor as cultural survey nor as psychological study…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 08 Sep 2018

American Dharma delivers a suspenseful and upsetting showdown between one man confident of his cause and another mortified by it…

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By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for The New York Times (9,847) on 31 Oct 2019

Certainly, American Dharma offers no comfort to those disturbed by Bannon or harmed by the policies he has pressed for…

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