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Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes

2018

Alexis Bloom

Documentary, Self: Roger Ailes

6.3

94

Documentary This documentary follows the rise & fall of Roger Ailes, controversial Fox News mogul & Republican king-maker. One of the most powerful & divisive figures in media, Ailes would go down in flames amid scandal, paranoia, & multiple sexual harassment allegations. As the powerhouse behind Fox News, Roger Ailes changed the course of US politics and discourse as much as Hearst or Pulitzer affected their times. Ailes was a key force in ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It] paints a fascinating and distressing portrait of insatiable power (...) There are a few places where 'Divide and Conquer' reveals Ailes in a haunting way"
		Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"A competent but conventional affair, highly watchable but low on fresh angles or bombshell revelations."
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] paints a scary portrait of the arrogance of power, of news as a tool for sale (...) A disturbing study of depravity in full toxic bloom (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"It conveys a credible sense of Ailes’s psychology through the testimony of peers and co-workers who witnessed his ruthlessness firsthand."
		Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"'Divide and Conquer' offers useful lessons — and maybe even a little hope — for people on both sides of the national divide, about just how we came to this terrible, but not irreversible, place (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Fleet, lucid, and very watchable, the film is as ruthlessly effective and goal-oriented as its namesake"
		Chris Barsanti Slant	"Keenly insightful and deeply depressing (...) Bloom creates a vivid portrait of Ailes as a rageaholic, gun-packing, woman-menacing thug (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Daniel Schindel The Film Stage	"[It's] predicated on the idea that by understanding people like Ailes [audiences] will better understand how to fight them. But this is combined with the documentary weakness of having to condense and simplify when covering a broad topic"

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