"America: Freedom To Fascism" captures America's current gloom and doom zeitgeist with plenty of controversial ideas to send any dinner party into a shouting match.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 21, 2009

A thought-provoking clarion call which concludes that America, instead of being by the people and for the people is, in truth, an oppressive, exploitative Big Brother where government and corporations reign supreme.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 11, 2007

repetitive and completely self-serving, with Russo making a serious of specious arguments that are largely laughed at by his serious subjects

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 2, 2007

| Original Score: D | Oct 7, 2006

There is food for thought here. But Russo loses his grasp on the material once he expands his focus.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 6, 2006

If Russo really wanted to attract an audience, he should have called this: Why You Don't Have To Pay Taxes! Now that's a title that would get people in the seats.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 6, 2006

Russo comes off as a paranoid ranter, the movie equivalent of the street-corner pamphleteer with tinfoil in his hat to keep out the gamma rays.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 6, 2006

Russo's brand of libertarianism is at best naive and at worst tin-foil-hat crazy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 5, 2006

The catch is the IRS doesn't care and will seize all your property and possibly throw you in jail if you refuse to pay.Talk about a buzzkill.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 5, 2006

If it's true, we're all due a monumental refund; if not, Russo and his cohorts may want to start looking for write-offs.

| Original Score: B | Sep 29, 2006

Essentially the filmmaking equivalent of an enraged blog on the Web -- pointed and provocative, but not exactly a comprehensive source for the issues it addresses.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2006

Even the staunchest and most forgiving of Libertarians would have to admit that this film comes up quite short.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2006

While the film -- which Russo produced, directed, edited and wrote -- has some fascinating and compelling arguments, it quickly assumes the tone of an angry diatribe rather than a well-reasoned political discussion.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2006

Russo feels his direction of this film is a brave, seditious deed. The audience I was surrounded by at an advance screening agreed.

Full Review | Aug 6, 2006

Lies, damn lies and statistics. It's pure propaganda.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 5, 2006

This movie is so humorless that it makes you wax nostalgic for the good old days when Michael Moore was sticking it to the man.

| Original Score: 46/100 | Aug 4, 2006

Russo is a clearly a healthy minded skeptic who tries to get both sides of the story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2006

Filmmaking lapses aside, this is an impassioned and generally persuasive film that rings all too eerily true.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 28, 2006

The mess we're in never looked so messy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 28, 2006

If America: From Freedom to Fascism is right only 10 percent of the time, we're in big trouble.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2006