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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorLevin crawls into America's woodwork to ferret out anti-Semites of all stripes, then rushes at them with Socratic reasoning -- a futile and often hilarious project, since they prove immune to thought reform, however rational.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterProtocols of Zion is often funny, revealing the idiocy of hatemongers through their own harebrained explanations.
- 70VarietyVarietyEntertaining and substantial enough to attract at least a portion of the Michael Moore audience.
- 70Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanThis absorbing essay amply demonstrates that, as with any sort of racial-nationalist paranoia, anti-Semitism has very little to do with actual Jews and everything to do with imagined ones.
- 70The New York TimesAnita GatesThe New York TimesAnita GatesMakes it case expertly and powerfully, but it does not propose a solution. The cumulative effect of the film's message is enormous sadness that hate is so strong and so resistant to reason.
- 63New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickWould have benefited from a tighter focus. There are too many interviews with crazies - and Levin's failed attempt to get Jewish entertainers to discuss "The Passion of the Christ" should have ended up on the cutting room floor.
- 63New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsLevin learned nothing that should surprise anyone who is both sentient and sane. But in tracing much of this contemporary anti-Semitism to a phony 19th-century document in which Jewish leaders lay out plans for taking over the world, we at least get some understanding of how some twisted people justify their hatred and fear of Jews.
- 63TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxThe result is both deeply personal and maddeningly unfocused.
- 60Film ThreatFilm ThreatTakes a personal, kinder-gentler Michael Moore/Nick Broomfield approach to exposing anti-Semitism.
- 50The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinMuddled, painfully earnest documentary.