Stealing America: Vote By Vote (2008)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:11
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: While it provides shocking evidence about stolen elections, Stealing America settles for preaching to the converted.
Genre: Education/General Interest
Synopsis: This troubling documentary examines rigged elections and suppressed voter rights in America, and what they mean for the future of democracy. Legislators, activists, and election officials speak out... [More]
Director: Dorothy Fadiman
Reviews for Stealing America: Vote By Vote
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This is not so much a documentary ... as a recruiting tool. We never hear anything from the other side; and the film ends with a fulsome patriotic call to action. Full Review |
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Regardless of your politics, it's hard to dismiss the disturbing assertions of this cheaply made but powerful documentary. Full Review |
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C |
more likely to depress voters than to galvanize them. Full Review |
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1/4 |
Stealing America is basically a rallying tool for activists. Full Review |
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3/4 |
It's perhaps the year's most canny piece of propaganda... it soothes a sore spot, and it's very effective. Full Review |
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2/4 |
It helps for a documentary about America's broken voting system to be flush with facts and outrage. But a little filmmaking wouldn't hurt, either. Full Review |
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What Stealing America lacks in formal elegance it makes up for in important information that deserves far more compelling delivery, as does its call for a return to paper ballots. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Stealing America: Vote by Vote is sobering. The film suggests that come Nov. 4, the votes of Republicans, Democrats and independents alike might not be counted fair and square. Full Review |
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C+ |
Amateurish but thorough with the tone of an ominous filmstrip. Right-wingers will cry "Paranoid!" but should we demand more neutrality from a film than we do of our elections? Full Review |
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C |
The title is provocative and the timing is right for an examination of the elctorate process, but the data are tentative and anecdotal and the whole execution poor and clumsy. Full Review |
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If you need any more proof that a movie like Swing Vote is complete balderdash, with its fantasy about getting couch potatoes out to the polls as the cure-all for what ails America, then here is it. Full Review |
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B+ |
Anyone who doubts for a second that the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Presidential elections were stolen by the Republicans using a methodical process of illegal machinations, should see this nightmare-inducing documentary on the subject. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Everybody loves a good conspiracy theory, and I'm more than willing to believe that Kerry really won. But Fadiman offers only circumstantial evidence when a smoking gun is needed. Full Review |
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Functions as an organizing tool for people worked up about the important issue, but is hardly suitable as a commercial doc release. Full Review |
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A clumsy if well-intentioned work of recycled propaganda, a mixture of hard evidence, random anecdote and far-flung inference that may convince some viewers that a clear verdict can be rendered on that impossibly murky event. Full Review |
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Stealing America: Vote by Vote does for American democracy what An Inconvenient Truth did for global warming. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Stealing America: Vote by Vote might have been this year's most alarming and patriotic documentary if it weren't so shoddy and dull. Full Review |
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1/5 |
As much as they champion the notion that any election chicanery is bad for both parties, this is strictly another propaganda-laced lashing out at corporations and the Republicans who use them to steal elections. Full Review |
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3/6 |
Despite backing up the sobering message of foul play with largely circumstantial evidence, Stealing America does offer useful advice (vote on paper, fools!) for those worried about our creeping American tyranny. Full Review |
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3/4 |
This well-crafted documentary about the purported theft of the 2004 presidential election could well be the feel-good movie of the summer -- after all, it absolves the general public for everything that happened. Full Review |
CommentLatest News for Stealing America: Vote By Vote
August 10, 2008:
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July 30, 2008:
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