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    Dinesh D'Souza's 'America' movie reviews: What critics are saying about the conservative author's new documentary

    The Times-Picayune / NOLA

    Mike Scott
    7/3/2014

    Excerpt:

    Dinesh D'souza's documentary "America" opens this week, just in time for the July 4th holiday -- but "patriotic" isn't the "p" word being used most often to describe this latest film from the conservative author and commentator. Rather, it's "partisan," which shouldn't come as much of a surprise for anyone familiar with his 2008 anti-Obama film "2016: Obama's America."

    D'Souza's newer film, whose full title is "America: Imagine the World Without Her," sets out to do just that: It uses dramatic re-enactments to help imagine what the world would be like if America never existed -- and uses its conclusions to counter what it says is a deeply anti-American slant that has come to color the nation's history.

    "'Someone once observed: 'America is great because she is good; if she ever ceases to be good she will cease to be great,'" the film's producers write in its synopsis. "Today that notion of the essential goodness of America is under attack, replaced by another story in which theft and plunder are seen as the defining features of American history -- from the theft of Native American and Mexican lands and the exploitation of African labor to a contemporary foreign policy said to be based on stealing oil and a capitalist system that robs people of their 'fair share.'"

    "America" wasn't widely screened for critics, but the first handful of reviews are trickling in, and they're not particularly glowing. Below, find a sampling of what critics are saying about D'Souza's new film. "America: Imagine the World Without Her" opened in theaters on Wednesday (July 2). Click here for local showtimes.

    Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post: "For those who resent the left, 'America' provides some rousing moments. ... 'America' 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." (Read the full review.)

    John Fund, The National Review Online: "At its heart, 'America' is a celebration of its title subject, and nothing so exemplifies this than the closing credits over which a band moored on a barge near the Statue of Liberty belts out the most unusual and yet stirring rendition of our national anthem you are likely ever to have heard. Like its subject, 'America' isn't perfect and its arguments sometimes aren't sophisticated. But it's the perfect film to take the family to on a Fourth of July." (Read the full review.)

    Christian Toto, Brietbart: " 'America' the movie is a good idea, and one long overdue. It's imperfect, much like the country itself, but its mission of defending a nation under assault from within is valiant to the core." (Read the full review.)

    Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune: "D'Souza cannot help himself. He's discovered a way to get rich hurling red meat Obama-baiting to an audience that cannot get enough of that. So he abandons any pretense of making a movie about how this country should have a more vigorous debate about its image, its principles and just what the truth is about its history." (Read the full review.)

    Joe Leydon, Variety: "To his credit, D'Souza gives screen time to a few interviewees -- like Native American rights activist Charmaine White Face -- who clearly aren't buying what he's selling. For the most part, however, D'Souza gives the impression of someone obsessed with whitewashing any and all dark chapters in U.S. history books." (Read the full review.)
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    View the complete article, including links and trailer video, at:

    http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf...a_movie_r.html
    B. Steadman

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    Bruce, you beat me to the post! lol. I was looking at the trailers of D'Souza's America last night but decided to not post anything in regards to until the following day.

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    • #3
      America: Imagine the world without her (New movie by Dinesh D’Souza)

      http://www.wasobamaborninkenya.com/b...dinesh-dsouza/

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        EXCERPTS from an article concerning the movie: America: Imagine the world without her

        “UPDATED: … Dinesh D’Souza’s “America” soared more than 60 percent on July Fourth itself.”


        Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza’s new documentary America, which expanded nationwide Wednesday, grossed $4 million for the five days from 1,105 theaters. That’s a modest footprint, compared to the $3,000-plus location count for the other new films.

        America, placing No. 11 for the weekend, didn’t match the $6.5 million nationwide launch of D’Souza’s hit documentary 2016: Obama’s America two years ago, but soared more than 60 percent on July Fourth after an intensive marketing push tied to the holiday. On Saturday, America was the only film in the top 20 that was down, however.

        Lionsgate is distributing America, which debunks the narrative that the United States has been a force of evil across the world through a combination of historical re-creations and interviews with some of the country’s harshest critics, including former Weather Underground radical Bill Ayers.


        View the complete article at:

        Box Office: ‘Transformers 4′ Tops Long Holiday With $53.8M; ‘Tammy’ No. 2 With $32.9M

        The Hollywood Reporter

        Pamela McClintock
        7/5/2014

        http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...-4-tops-716807
        B. Steadman

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          D’Souza’s ‘America’ uncovers a generation of liberal lies

          RenewAmerica

          Michael Bresciani
          7/7/2014

          Excerpt:

          One of the contributors of the American Prophet website submitted a critique of D’Souza’s film just days before its release. Along with other reports it was the impetus for my trip to the local theatre to see for myself what the buzz was all about.

          I am now convinced that much more than a mere buzz; D’Souza’s offering is a trumpet, which every American should see regardless of their race, political persuasion or national origin.

          D’Souza has an advantage over almost any filmmaker in America today and he could not be a more perfect choice to make this film because he is an Indian born immigrant whose love for this country was not biased by an education in U.S. schools where the curriculum has been carefully and unremittingly skewed to the left for an entire generation.

          The film deals with generational lies that have slowly crept into the national dialogue, educational system and the political rhetoric of the left. The shear persistence of these lies and the willingness to lay these prevarications before an unsuspecting generation of our youth as ‘true history’ has fostered a kind of ‘new truth’ that after all is nothing but syncopated, syndicated, deliberate and dangerous lies meant to lead America into a day of self-loathing and inordinate guilt.

          But is the film fair?

          In fact, the opening elements of the film are all about the history and the narrative of the modern view of our past. So much time was given to these views that I began to wonder if D’Souza was leaning liberal. Yet, he gave each element full time and explained each view without bias or coloration. Some of the subjects outlaid are:
          • The question of whether America actually had Christian foundations
          • The Horrors of the Slave trade in America
          • The mishandling of Native Americans
          • The great land grab from Mexico
          • Theft of other nation’s wealth and colonialism
          • The ‘unjust’ waging of war in Vietnam
          • The creeping effect of socialism and its origins

          When these subjects have been fairly presented D’Souza offers what renowned commentator Paul Harvey coined as – “the rest of the story.”

          Using an an array of facts, historical honesty and bare knuckles attacks on liberally biased accounting of events, Dinesh goes round after round to win the match between a generationally long swindle of the American narrative and the simple truth that America has much more to be proud of than she has to be ashamed of; in fact, it is the false narrative of history, now taught to every school kid that is – the real shame.

          As an example, the view that all Native Americans were abused, displaced and subject to genocide is countered with the truth about the warring and constant displacement of tribes done by the Native Americans themselves.

          The picture painted by today’s historians, of a perfectly balanced nation of natives, all happily just living off the land, and never taking more than they needed, and living in perfect harmony with nature and each other, is seen as a naïve. Tribes were always warring and cruelty, slavery and genocide was commonly practiced by many tribes – long before Europeans arrived.

          In the mid-eighties, I was able to spend some time in the beautiful state of Oregon where I found a Kalapuya Indian mound about fifty miles south of the Columbia River. The mound is a raised area where the natives camped.

          Musing through thousands of broken arrow heads and other artifacts I came across a large “L” shaped rock that was covered with some sort of inscription. It could be held in hand and looked like it may have been a tool of some kind. After inquiring at the home of a local collector and historian of the tribe I discovered that the ominous looking rock was a “slave killer.” It was used to kill any slave won through raids and conquests and who dared to attempt an escape.

          Slavery was practiced by many tribes in this country not just the Kalapuya.

          This knowledge is not used here or in any other historical context to besmirch the history of Native Americans, but is only a call to a more honest view of history. This is exactly the kind of thing D’Souza repeatedly accomplished in his film.

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          View the complete article at:

          http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/bresciani/140707
          B. Steadman

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            'America' Enjoys 'Fantastic' Box Office Hold, Dethrones Michael Moore's 'Roger & Me'

            'America' Enjoys 'Fantastic' Box Office Hold, Dethrones Michael Moore's 'Roger & Me'

            Breitbart / Big-Hollywood

            Christian Toto
            7/13/2014

            Excerpt:

            America isn't a one-weekend wonder.

            The new docudrama, from the team behind 2016: Obama's America, earned an A+ rating from CinemaScore during its debut weekend July 4-6.

            Today, Box Office Mojo said the film enjoyed a "fantastic" second weekend.

            Dinesh D'Souza's America (2014) had a fantastic hold this weekend. The documentary eased 11 percent to $2.45 million; to date, its earned $8.3 million.

            The film scored the fifth highest per-screen average of any movie over the weekend, and it unseated Michael Moore's Roger & Me on the list of top grossing political documentaries in just two weekends. America currently holds the seventh slot in that category.

            Dinesh D'Souza's book of the same name also is enjoying a blast of synergy. It's currently the top-selling book at online powerhouse Amazon.com.
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            View the complete article at:

            http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywo...fantastic-hold
            B. Steadman

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