One journalist compares sorting through "fake news" to "bathing in garbage," and, indeed, this documentary is a very tough sit, but it also offers tools for viewers to start identifying this poison.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2020

Whether people are politically liberal, conservative or somewhere in between, the main takeaway from After Truth is that ... it's up to news audiences to be more pro-active in finding out the truth instead of believing stories at face value.

| Jul 15, 2020

Rossi and Stelter tell a compelling story - one that you wish was fake news. This has devastating human costs and it appears too big to fail.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2020

[It] tackles disinformation and fake news, and is especially timely in the midst of the novel coronavirus.

| Mar 20, 2020

An absorbing and impressively researched documentary directed by Andrew Rossi.

| Mar 20, 2020

The movie is about two percent positive, 98 percent terrifying.

| Mar 19, 2020

The insidious networks of misinformation who snake their conspiracy theories into mainstream news media are deftly explored.

| Mar 19, 2020

"After Truth" does a good job of exposing the problem. What we need now, more than ever, is a solution.

| Mar 19, 2020

You may need a shower after watching After Truth. That, plus subscribing to a trusted newspaper and deleting our Facebook presence may be the most we can do.

| Mar 19, 2020

In other places "After Truth" plays more like a survey, something that might have made an hourlong feature on CNN. But its strongest animating idea is that fake news is not simply a political abstraction.

| Mar 19, 2020

After Truth only covers a snippet of the misinformation, which is only going to get worse in the social media age.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 18, 2020

More performance art than news, their appearance is fodder for ridicule, but there's nothing funny about the larger implications of After Truth, and what that title denotes.

| Mar 17, 2020