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Slay the Dragon

2019

Documentary

Documentary Gerrymandering has been a popular topic recently, and for good reason. Beyond the blatant political interests fueling the practice, gerrymandering has led to an erosion of democracy, a disregard for the voter, and without it various events in the past years would not have been pulled off. "Slay the Dragon" draws direct connections between this practice and the Flint water crisis, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s removal of collective ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"'Slay the Dragon' is the most important political film of the year, and it may prove to be one of the key political films of the decade (...) An incisively made and morally suspenseful film"	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] takes up the scourge of gerrymandering. Viewers who don't need that word explained to them (...) may feel a feature film is overkill (...) But most will learn something here"	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"For anyone who has read a book on gerrymandering (...) won’t necessarily offer much that is new (...) [It] does a skillful job of distilling a complicated history."	POS
United States	Derek Smith Slant	"[A] suitably direct, clear-eyed, and exhaustive in documenting the massive impacts that gerrymandering has (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Caroline Cao SlashFilm	"[It] finds tragedy in the inexplicable of governmental operations, starting with the environmental racism of the Flint Water Crisis and minimizing the vote of marginalized communities"	POS
United States	Jared Mobarak The Film Stage	"You’ll probably know how one of those battles turns out if you watch the news, but that doesn’t make the process any less important."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Most viewers know so little about the evils of gerrymandering that this serviceable treatment will keep them engaged throughout"	POS
United States	Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"A compelling and instructive look at the political practice of gerrymandering. It’s also an infuriating watch on several levels"	POS
United States	John Serba Decider	"A moderately rousing David-vs.-Goliath doc addressing something that’s one of the far, far, far too many absolutely relevant issues of the day."	POS

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