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- Giant Pictures
- 1 h 17 m
- Giant Pictures
- 1 h 17 m
Summary The story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda. By turns horrifying and hilarious, the film is a satirical portrait of Russian media that reveals an empire of fake news and the tactics of modern-day information warfare.
Directed By: Maxim Pozdorovkin
- Giant Pictures
- 1 h 17 m
- Giant Pictures
- 1 h 17 m
Our New President
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Summary The story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda. By turns horrifying and hilarious, the film is a satirical portrait of Russian media that reveals an empire of fake news and the tactics of modern-day information warfare.
Directed By: Maxim Pozdorovkin
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Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
66
80% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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The relentless flow of manufactured scandal and over-the-top lies in Our New President, all packaged with “authentic” video footage and flash-cut techniques, is sometimes funny, and sometimes depressing.... But mostly it’s scary.
It’ll annoy many with its refusal to take a stance beyond the absurdity of it all, but that lack of easy outrage makes it a true original. An important documentary for our times too, taking us deep into the heart of a bubble far from our own.
Without taking any particular stand on whether the Russians decisively swung the result of the 2016 election or just nudged it along, the film makes it clear just how insidious, relentless and brazen their propaganda effort was, seeding memes that metastasized virulently throughout the world.
This doc may actually benefit more from a viewing outside any contemporary hype vortex.
Our New President merely scratches the surface, and in its own weird way, comes to embody the plague of shallow spectacle it purports to fight against.
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Production Company
Field of Vision (II),
First Look Media,
Impact Partners,
Third Party Films
Duration 1 h 17 m
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Website
http://ournewpresident.us/
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Traverse City Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Miami Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
