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Metascore
8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsShowing the movie would be a great way to open a debate. I would love to hear its charges answered as clearly as they're stated.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleJonathan CurielSan Francisco ChronicleJonathan CurielThought-provoking.
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe result may be better suited for classroom viewing than for theatrical exhibition, but that's a tribute to the movie's instructive value.
- This one-sided account brings some lesser-known offenses to light and advances a scenario that is bold and detailed. But it is hardly dispassionate.
- 50The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe main problem with The Promised Land is that Jhally and Ratzkoff are eager to foster dissent, but not to invite it into their own movie. Their talking heads sound rehearsed and repetitive, and the righteous anger dissipates without a contrary opinion to provide a ceiling.
- 50New York PostNew York PostOften, the movie feels like sitting through a college lecture class.
- 50VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyPedantic, humorless and one-sided -- qualities that won't encourage exposure beyond the activist left.