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By Michael Ordoña (350) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 10 Oct 2018

Dark comedy about political divide has violence, language…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for New York Times (5,786) on 10 Oct 2018

It was said by many after the 2016 election that the Trump administration would yield great satirical art. This is not an example of that…

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By Maureen Lee Lenker (21) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 09 Oct 2018

The film wrongfully substitutes abrupt violence for anything truly provocative, squandering the promise of its early scenes with a disjointed…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 09 Oct 2018

A blistering political satire that may rip the bandage and the scab, as well as a lot of the skin, off a political wound that has barely had…

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By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 09 Oct 2018

The Thanksgiving table is a perfect battleground for these heavily entrenched political lines, with Barinholtz’s smart, nuanced script pulling…

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By Fred Topel (1,193) for Monsters and Critics (513) on 09 Oct 2018

This conversation needs to happen, whether it makes people uncomfortable or not, probably more so because it does…

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By Peter Goldberg (21) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Oct 2018

Even while it asks us to recognize ourselves in a world not too distant from our own, The Oath seems to say that the worst part of a full-fledged…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Punch Drunk Critics (518) on 04 Oct 2018

No matter who you voted for, The Oath offers a little something to smile about during these heated political times…

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By Sandy Schaefer (333) for ScreenRant (1,013) on 03 Oct 2018

The Oath is a clumsy, but ambitious directorial debut for Barinholtz and provides a blisteringly satirical examination of the modern political divide…

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By Pierce Singgih (1) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 30 Sep 2018

Barinholtz's directorial debut is a hilariously chaotic look at the repercussions of politically charged Thanksgivings…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 27 Sep 2018

A satire like The Oath compels the audience to confront [today's headlines], albeit in fictionalized form…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The Week (85) on 27 Sep 2018

In The Oath, his first feature as a writer-director, comic actor Ike Barinholtz zeroes in on an approach somewhere between caustic stage comedy…

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By Kyle Kohner (23) for The Playlist (3,871) on 26 Sep 2018

Raw, improvised and indicative of Trump’s America, The Oath reminds viewers of the need for laughter despite the downtrodden insanity around…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for TheWrap (3,203) on 25 Sep 2018

The Oath is a film of its time, and that immediacy is both its strength and its downfall…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 25 Sep 2018

Here’s a project that had the nerve to address these tensions in a megaplex environment, only to squander them on a standoff it pretends…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 25 Sep 2018

Clearly coming from the left but happy to make characters of all political stripes look bad, the film is often hard to take, offering laughs…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 25 Sep 2018

Despite tackling our crazy times, The Oath somehow winds up not quite crazy enough to assess them…

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