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  • 2006
  • Unrated
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2006
  • Unrated
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 27 m

Summary For decades, U.S. strategists-for-hire have been quietly molding the opinions of voters and the messages of candidates in elections around the world. They have worked for presidential candidates on every continent. Without the noise of tanks or troops, these Americans have been spreading our brand of democracy from the Middle East to the...

Directed By: Rachel Boynton

Written By: Rachel Boynton

  • 2006
  • Unrated
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2006
  • Unrated
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 27 m

Our Brand Is Crisis

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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Summary For decades, U.S. strategists-for-hire have been quietly molding the opinions of voters and the messages of candidates in elections around the world. They have worked for presidential candidates on every continent. Without the noise of tanks or troops, these Americans have been spreading our brand of democracy from the Middle East to the...

Directed By: Rachel Boynton

Written By: Rachel Boynton

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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86% Positive
18 Reviews
10% Mixed
2 Reviews
5% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews
71
86% Positive
18 Reviews
10% Mixed
2 Reviews
5% Negative
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It's hard to know whether to marvel or weep when James Carville goes into his Bill Clinton–meets–Looney Tunes act in Rachel Boynton's knockout documentary Our Brand Is Crisis--the context is so morally topsy-turvy.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
83
A fascinating glimpse at the perils of ''exporting'' democracy.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
75
Rosner works for famed Democratic strategist James Carville, who stops just short of dry-humping the camera lens in his hunger for the spotlight here. Our Brand Is Crisis is full of strangely resonant parallels to American politics.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW
70
Rachel Boynton's painfully timely film is actually a full-court tragedy - the sorry tale of a battle won and a war lost; of a country decimated by 500 years of colonialism and poverty; of globalization and America's losing battle to export market democracy to the developing world.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
70
Among other things, Our Brand Is Crisis is about the failure of good intentions--a potent American theme at the moment. As the movie suggests, this failure, born of American arrogance, embraces liberals as well as neocons.
By David Denby FULL REVIEW
63
Proves, unhappily enough, how U.S.-style media politics is spreading around the world.
By Michael Wilmington FULL REVIEW
38
Boynton isn't interested in telling a story, only in the atmosphere of political consultancy.
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Production Company Boynton Films Production, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Films Transit International, Slough Pond, Urban Empire
Release Date Mar 1, 2006
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

International Documentary Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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