[CSA is] an extraordinary new mock-u-mentary.

| Aug 9, 2017

"C.S.A." tells a counter-story of how slavery survives to the present day-and it uses traces of contemporary pop culture to show that the notion isn't really even such a stretch.

| Feb 16, 2017

Brimming with daring concepts though only sporadically united into a lacerating whole

| Aug 30, 2009

It's a film beaming with fertile ideas.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 31, 2008

Unrelenting in its cleverness but repetitive in hammering home this message of shameful black oppression.

| Mar 1, 2007

If you've ever wondered what the course America history might have taken if the south had won the Civil War, you might like to check out this infinitely creative, alternately sobering and humorous look at America's lingering legacy of racism.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 17, 2007

As funny as it is provocative, this is a startling film on every level.

| Nov 20, 2006

Its attack on American racist capitalism is provocative, disturbing and powerful satire . . . shows us through fiction what Katrina has already revealed in fact.

Full Review | Nov 2, 2006

The film's decision to incorporate genuine examples of human horror (photographs of the Wounded Knee Massacre and Southern lynch mob violence) are thoroughly out of place in a movie that tries to score satirical points.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2006

Its central notion is so very promising that Willmott's failure to properly run with it only compounds the eventual disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 4, 2006

By slyly nudging both history and the language of television, this mock documentary about an America won by the Confederacy ... manages to be both shocking and strangely banal in equal measure.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2006

The satire comes to feel strained and the whole premise gets awfully precious, reducing social subtleties to cinematic simplicities.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 16, 2006

There are droll comic flourishes in this very brave film, to be sure, but all you really want to do after watching CSA is hang down your head and cry.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 6, 2006

A rough-edged but incredibly provocative fake documentary.

| Original Score: B+ | May 5, 2006

Here, technique interferes with the film's argument because it's attempting to satirize a history that didn't occur.

| May 3, 2006

A deadpan satire that's as fun as it is smart.

| Apr 6, 2006

It's as if, in trying to emulate the style of stuffy documentarian Ken Burns, Wilmott made something that actually makes Burns' films seem livelier.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 31, 2006

An entertaining and razor-sharp lesson in the pervasiveness of racism in American history.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 31, 2006

The most alarming thing about C.S.A.: Confederate States of America is how utterly unalarming it seems.

Full Review | Mar 31, 2006