Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes

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Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes

Released Dec 7, 2018

1h 47m

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Filmmaker Alexis Bloom examines the rise and fall of Roger Ailes, the Republican Party booster and controversial Fox News mogul who went down in flames amid multiple sexual harassment allegations.

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Divide & Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes offers an overview of the media mogul's rise and fall that proves as engrossing as it is deeply disturbing.

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Director Alexis Bloom reaches back far enough into Ailes's unhappy youth in small-town Ohio to explain both his deep understanding of the heartland and his ruthless abuse of those in his professional orbit.

Mar 11, 2020

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Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

A shocking, well-researched and richly observant documentary from Alexis Bloom about the climate of lies and systemic sexual abuse that allowed the bad behavior of Fox News chief Roger Ailes to flourish until his victims said Time's Up.

Rated: 4/5

Dec 13, 2018

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Alissa Wilkinson

Vox

Divide and Conquer is not content to skim the surface of Ailes's life.

Dec 8, 2018

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Steven Prokopy

Third Coast Review

Part cautionary tale, part Citizen Kane-style biography, the film is the perfect telling of how power corrupts the soul and warps the mind to the point where it becomes cliche.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 14, 2020

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Phil Guie

Film-Forward.com

As delivered by actor Peter Gerety, who makes Ailes sound cold and downright reptilian at times, the quotes betray a deep-rooted cynicism that his actions reflected.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 25, 2019

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Peter Sobczynski

eFilmCritic.com

A smart, incisive and sometimes scary look at how we got to this particular place in our history.

Feb 7, 2019

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Audience Member

The movie seems to spend a lot of time praising a manipulative, narcissist, racist with tendencies to abuse women. Amazingly sad how someone so cruel could remain on top for so long. I guess it's just how money is perceived here. The rating is due to the way the "documentary" was put together.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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dave d

This documentary on Roger Ailes is a fair and balanced look at a man who was a media genius, and also deeply deeply flawed. For a man who is dead and who did so much harm to women, it's amazing that people still appear afraid of talking poorly about him. Instead, documentarian Alexis Bloom takes the facts and lets them sit out for all to see. Final Score: 8.3/10

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Media mogul and monster Roger Ailes goes under the microscope and the sight is scary.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Audience Member

Great movie that shows the true color of Fox News and its slimeball creator Roger Ailes. Hopefully he is burning in his own room of torment in hell.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/19

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Audience Member

A fascinating film that exposes how such a powerful man shaped the world we know today. A must see for anyone who is interested in why our current political spectrum is so polarised. This film does not demonise Roger Ailes, like other reviews have stated. Watch it and make up your own mind. Remember the Fox slogan - Fair & Balanced! The average age of a Fox news viewer is 65 years of age. What does that tell you?

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes may be straightforward and a bit lacking in stylistic direction, but it's a rather necessary look at one man's life to help understand today's politics.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Alexis Bloom examines the rise and fall of Roger Ailes, the Republican Party booster and controversial Fox News mogul who went down in flames amid multiple sexual harassment allegations.

Director: Alexis Bloom
Producer: Will Cohen, Alexis Bloom
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Production Co: Baird Films, Jigsaw Productions, Impact Partners, A&E IndieFilms
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 7, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 8, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $38.0K
Runtime: 1h 47m

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