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  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary Rachel Dolezal ignited an unprecedented media storm when a local news station in Spokane, WA outed her as a white woman who had been living as the black president of the NAACP. Since the controversy erupted, director Laura Brownson and team exclusively filmed with Rachel, her sons and her adopted sister Esther, capturing the intimate, vé...

Directed By: Laura Brownson

Written By: Jeff Seymann Gilbert, Laura Brownson

  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 40 m

The Rachel Divide

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
59
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
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Summary Rachel Dolezal ignited an unprecedented media storm when a local news station in Spokane, WA outed her as a white woman who had been living as the black president of the NAACP. Since the controversy erupted, director Laura Brownson and team exclusively filmed with Rachel, her sons and her adopted sister Esther, capturing the intimate, vé...

Directed By: Laura Brownson

Written By: Jeff Seymann Gilbert, Laura Brownson

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
59
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40% Mixed
4 Reviews
10% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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40% Mixed
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10% Negative
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80
Apr 24, 2018
The portrait it paints is sure to confound and infuriate in equal measure. Far from simply a snapshot of a discussion about race, Brownson’s documentary is a riveting account of self-sabotage, misplaced priorities, and obstinacy run amok.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
75
May 1, 2018
If you’ve made up your mind about her, it’s hard to see this intriguing documentary changing that made up mind. The movie turned my head, here and there. But the questions about her honesty linger, along with the notoriety.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 25, 2018
The Rachel Divide is a fascinating, comprehensive and well-crafted documentary.
By Mark Kennedy FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 26, 2018
The Rachel Divide never quite cracks Dolezal's facade (if it even is a facade). But Brownson does move beyond the "think-piece" take on a real person — while also questioning whether she should.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 30, 2018
Early in The Rachel Divide, a commentator describes Dolezal as a Rorschach blot, and the movie is one, too. Some people think it’s a hatchet job, others that it gives its subject’s commitment to social justice too much credence. I found it pretty much down the middle.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
42
Apr 27, 2018
Brownson’s misguided and desperate attempts to humanize Dolezal only expose how deeply selfish and self-absorbed this woman is. 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.
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20
Apr 24, 2018
Dolezal desperately tries to align herself with absurd terms like “trans racial” in order to try to find some way of making her way of life acceptable, but she always comes up short, and it is impossible to have any sympathy for her because she is so transparently a manipulator and a guilt-tripper.
By Dan Callahan FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Apr 27, 2018
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating TV-MA
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Tagline Who does she think she is?
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• 1 Nomination

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