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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMichael Moore in TrumpLand earns points for ultra-timeliness and its admirable attempt to raise the level of discourse in this deeply polarizing election.
- 60The GuardianJordan HoffmanThe GuardianJordan HoffmanMoore doesn’t want to tear Trump down so much as he wants to build Clinton up, and however much of a dingus he may be (some of his jokes really don’t work), he is sincere in his optimism and empathy. That’s something that you just can’t fake.
- 60The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerMr. Moore has basically made an earnest but not very entertaining pro-Clinton campaign film, occasionally funny, momentarily heartfelt when he takes up the subject of universal health care and the lives lost for lack of it. Against the rest of his work (“Bowling for Columbine,” “Roger & Me”) it’s fairly tepid stuff.
- 60Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranA rambling, mildly entertaining performance film.
- 60New York Daily NewsNew York Daily NewsThe film is better when Moore is joking about America’s problems, presenting fake Trump ads or offering a parody news broadcast from the day of Trump’s inauguration, but he doesn’t do enough of that in TrumpLand.
- 58IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichMoore’s premeditated attempts to wring some laughs out of this category 5 shitstorm are so half-assed that you wish he hadn’t bothered.... It’s as though he realized that the film could have been just as successful as a podcast, and compensated for that fact by shoehorning in some needless visual razzmatazz.
- 58The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThis 73-minute speech isn’t really much of a movie, and as advocacy it’s unlikely to reach Trump-leaning voters. But as a case for Clinton aimed at third-party supporters who are convinced they couldn’t stomach casting a ballot for her, it might turn a few heads.
- 40VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanMichael Moore In TrumpLand turns out to be a tossed hand grenade that doesn’t fully detonate.
- 40ScreenCrushMatt SingerScreenCrushMatt SingerThe film is a bit of a mess; a heartfelt, scattershot, mostly unfunny, intermittently moving polemic about our country and its people.