Brownson's documentary strongly suggests everyone is seeing the same thing in this sad ink blot-except Dolezal herself.

| Nov 16, 2018

In the end, the film raises more questions than it answers: is this a sympathetic portrait or a hatchet job? Is Dolezal a pioneer or mentally unstable? Would she have the same air time if she were a black woman pretending to be white?

| Jun 26, 2018

Nobody is helped by a seemingly throwaway moment that attempts to address Dolezal's supposed transracial identity with that of transgender individuals... perhaps the film's most offensive sequence.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 20, 2018

The Rachel Divide works hard to give an insider's view of a story that for some is the case of a woman suffering from a serious sense of cultural displacement and for others is an ongoing attempt to redefine notions of race and what that term... means.

| May 11, 2018

Docu about controversial "trans-racial" woman; cursing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2018

There is something sick, twisted and insulting about America's fixation with Rachel Dolezal and the way her lies have given her a platform, albeit a negative one, that most Black people don't have.

| May 3, 2018

In the end, The Rachel Divide feels like a feedback loop. And soon enough, we're bound to hear it again.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 3, 2018

Like everything about Rachel Dolezal, it's complicated, but this film-whether or not it should have ever been made-helps untangle both the motivation for-and the impact of-Rachel Dolezal's strange choices.

| May 3, 2018

Instead, my empathy is reserved for the Black members of Dolezal's family, because the tighter she's insisted on performing Blackness, the more they've suffered.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 1, 2018

"The Rachel Divide" becomes a disturbing and enthralling drama of the American family, the pain of its truths and its fictions.

| May 1, 2018

The Rachel Divide doesn't have an answer for whether what Dolezal did was misguided or poisonous. However, the film does shed light on the sea of outrage and humiliation this scandal has caused.

| Apr 30, 2018

Its title is a bit too clever, but The Rachel Divide takes a largely serious, respectful and dignified approach toward a subject many would say is undeserving.

| Apr 27, 2018

The most riveting section of the film is its conclusion, when [Laura] Brownson openly questions [Rachel] Dolezal and pushes her to answer some uncomfortable questions.

| Apr 27, 2018

Brownson has done exactly what she needed to: show how Dolezal was formed, how society responded to her insistence that "race is a construct," and how she's coping in the face of such relentless hatred.

| Apr 27, 2018

It's devastating to see so many innocent people torn down by Dolezal's deceit, and The Rachel Divide benefits immensely by highlighting their voices, including those of some of the NAACP members she worked with.

| Apr 27, 2018

"The Rachel Divide" grapples with Dolezal's contradictions, as well as with the inherent problems of making a movie about her.

| Apr 26, 2018

Ms. Brownson hasn't figured out how to construct a movie around a figure who essentially owes her fame to the obfuscation of her past.

| Apr 26, 2018

Dolezal is basically outrage clickbait in human form, and so Brownson is using Dolezal's negative attention seeking to get attention for herself as a filmmaker. Nothing beyond that has been accomplished here.

| Apr 25, 2018

Her steadfast refusal to acknowledge the opposing view seems to also be a sore spot with both of her sons, who form a crucial foundation for the story.

| Apr 25, 2018

Dolezal is nicely integrated into a larger discussion of modern America's grappling with identity fluidity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2018