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Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes Reviews - Metacritic

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2018
Magnolia Pictures
1 h 47 m

2018
Magnolia Pictures
1 h 47 m

Summary Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes deftly fuses the personal, the political and the just plain surreal as it charts the rise and fall of Fox News Chairman, Roger Ailes. Variously called a bulldog, a kingmaker, and the Ernest Hemingway of campaign advisors, Ailes was a key media consultant to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and George ...

Directed By: Alexis Bloom

2018
Magnolia Pictures
1 h 47 m

2018
Magnolia Pictures
1 h 47 m

Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews

71

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings

6.9

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Summary Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes deftly fuses the personal, the political and the just plain surreal as it charts the rise and fall of Fox News Chairman, Roger Ailes. Variously called a bulldog, a kingmaker, and the Ernest Hemingway of campaign advisors, Ailes was a key media consultant to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and George ...

Directed By: Alexis Bloom

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews

83% Positive
15 Reviews

17% Mixed
3 Reviews

0% Negative
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Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews

83% Positive
15 Reviews

17% Mixed
3 Reviews

0% Negative
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Dec 11, 2018

A well-researched and richly observant documentary from Alexis Bloom about the climate of lies and systemic abuse that nurtured Ailes and allowed his behavior to flourish.

By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW

Dec 6, 2018

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.

By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

Dec 7, 2018

Amid all the jaw-dropping tales of bullying behavior, there is a constant and almost mordant acknowledgement of the one thing that Ailes was scarily right about: that no public official will ever again be elected “without the skillful use of television.”

By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

Dec 5, 2018

Washington Post

Ultimately, 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.

By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW

Nov 29, 2018

Alexis Bloom’s keenly insightful and deeply depressing documentary is probably best viewed not as a record of the past but a document of what’s to come.

By Chris Barsanti FULL REVIEW

Dec 5, 2018

A brisk and reasonably thorough dog trot through a life that was simultaneously invisible and all powerful, and it’s goosed along with slick production techniques that more than once get in the way.

By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW

Dec 5, 2018

San Francisco Chronicle

Although it’s good to have a critical accounting of his role in modern American politics, most of what we see here has been reported elsewhere, and this documentary seems aimed at rallying the troops.

By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW

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User Reviews

User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings

75% Positive
6 Ratings

25% Mixed
2 Ratings

0% Negative
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User Reviews

User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings

75% Positive
6 Ratings

25% Mixed
2 Ratings

0% Negative
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Details

Production Company

A&E IndieFilms
Baird Films
Impact Partners
Jigsaw Productions

Release Date Dec 7, 2018

Duration 1 h 47 m

Genres

Tagline You Can Do Anything When You Stop at Nothing

Website http://www.divideandconquerfilm.com/

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Awards

Hamptons International Film Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Camden International Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

Docville

• 1 Nomination

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