Dinesh D’Souza, the alt-right nutcase auteur, has a beef with the men and women who write reviews of his latest effort, “Death of a Nation.” It earned the rare 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, or, to put it another way, it’s a film only Don Trump Jr. could love. D’Souza is sure his critics are afraid the public seeing his brilliant polemic...and then what??
"This absurdly big chasm shows one group of people is absolutely outraged and wants to drive a stake into (the movie's) heart. They are trying to drive away mainstream viewers who might see the movie and be persuaded by it," says D'Souza. "Meanwhile, the other group of people is fanatic, wildly spreading the word.”
Yeah! They might be persuaded.
"The quality is high, but the critics pretend like it’s not," D'Souza says. "That to me is just intellectually dishonest."
So what do they say. Adam Graham of the Detroit News says:
D'Souza quotes Hitler (played by Pavel Kríz) in one scene as saying, "if you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed." It's a concept D'Souza has taken to heart.
Vadim Rizov of the AV Club says:
D'Souza fails, as ever, to make an argument that would resonate outside the QAnon echo chamber.
And, how about Owen Gleiberman of Variety?
In "Death of a Nation," Dinesh D'Souza is no longer preaching to the choir; he's preaching to the mentally unsound.
My favorite is from Peter Sobczynski of RogerEbert.com.
If ever there was a movie that looked as if it had been slapped together in a couple of weeks as part of a quid pro quo agreement involving a dubious-seeming criminal pardon, Death of a Nation is that film.