Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

"'Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power' will be completely eye-opening for some, and for others it will at least be a needed reminder to pay closer attention. Either way, 'Brainwashed' is bound to make one a better film viewer" 

"The film encourages not just a new way of looking but a new way of seeing — and that includes realizing that not everything worth watching has to be perfect for an audience to take something way from it." 

"The film is founded on a simplistic, poorly argued thesis (...) 'Brainwashed' seems very concerned with policing viewer pleasure and has no time to explore the complexity of desire the way, for instance, 

"'Brainwashed' should help some viewers’ understanding of what they’ve only cursorily considered while irritating others with its didacticism." 

"Women are treated as a homogeneous mass of delicate flowers who wither away under even the briefest glance from a man. (...) It enforces victimhood on women who are anything but victims." 

"'Brainwashed' is a documentary for any woman in film who ever wanted, just even for a moment, to throw a grenade at the canon: Nina Menkes has the ammunition" 

"The problem with [the film] is that Menkes insists on drastically simplifying what's clearly a complicated subject, especially at the level of the image (...) 'Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power' feels thorough in its scope (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"