We live in profoundly, dangerously stupid times; Morris’s film does nothing to clarify them or combat their architects.

| Jan 4, 2023

Morris essentially provides this scandalmonger and inciter of racial and ethnic hatred a platform for most of the one and a half hours of the film.

| Feb 10, 2021

It's commonly believed culture is a civilising influence but Bannon is the living refutation of that idea.

| Dec 8, 2020

Unfortunately, Morris keeps his rebuttals to a career minimum in American Dharma -- bad timing, considering his subject is an active fire-starter, not a regretful, dried-out war hawk.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 12, 2020

While Morris never takes his subject to task (and oh how delicious the film would be if he had), the director has crafted a time capsule that delivers a blunt (and aggravating) record of one of the most polarizing political figures of our time.

| Original Score: 3 / 5 | Nov 6, 2020

I wanted more answers and less glossing over and excuse-making by the [so-called] monarch-maker.

| Original Score: B | Oct 27, 2020

There's just not enough poking around in the Bannon-verse by Morris.

| Oct 24, 2020

Morris's conversation with Bannon reveals a lot and is, in fact, a more illuminating look at the man than last year's "The Brink."

| Original Score: B | Oct 21, 2020

...it feels right that Morris allows us, the viewer, to draw our own conclusions on the destructive nature of Bannon's social and political ideas.

| Original Score: 15/20 | Oct 14, 2020

Even for a more objective viewer, American Dharma has just enough self-awareness to emphasize its own beliefs but lacks the oratory to go past what's already known.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2020

American Dharma exposes Bannon as both a brilliant political strategist and a grotesque personification of the anti-globalist nationalism...

| Jun 22, 2020

Throughout the film, which boasts a smart score and does a brilliant job of interweaving film and news clips with public opinion overlaid via the Twittersphere, [Errol] Morris affords his subject a long leash - perhaps too long.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 2, 2020

The movie's worth taking in, though, as a shaky confrontation with a very American kind of demon, one weaned on the shallow, heroic lies of Hollywood individualism, furious that life rarely works that way, and willing to wreck the house in response.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 2, 2020

Kid-glove treatment of the former Donald Trump advisor is surprising coming from the hard-hitting interviewer of Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 17, 2019

Whether or not American Dharma is worth your time is ultimately up to you and whether you enjoy giving space in your life to controversial figures.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 13, 2019

Give 'em enough rope, as they say. It's become increasingly fashionable to twist or ignore facts, but it's still important to present them for all to see.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2019

Bannon has trafficked in racism, far-right conspiracy theories and other controversies during his career. Morris brings up some of it... but rarely nails Bannon with a tough follow-up question.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 5, 2019

As always, Morris burrows deep into his subjects. Here his laser focus gives Bannon free rein to reveal his guiding principles and strategies, admirable and otherwise, and Bannon serves up some stunning commentary.

| Dec 3, 2019

American Dharma is a vivisection, and [ Errol] Morris gives Bannon the tools to do it himself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 14, 2019

"American Dharma" is the gospel according to Stephen K. Bannon - a feature-length conversation with the Trump White House's former chief political advisor that is both more interesting and more depressing than you might be expecting.

| Nov 8, 2019