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      Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

      PG Released Apr 18, 2008 1h 30m Documentary List
      11% Tomatometer 46 Reviews 68% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings Author, actor and political commentator Ben Stein poses the argument that intelligent design and evolution are both valid scientific explanations for the development of life on earth, and that institutions that don't embrace both views are guilty of stifling academic freedom. Stein makes his case through film clips, interviews with creationists and scientists and his own acerbic observations, including the opinion that Darwin's theory of evolution is partially responsible for the Holocaust. Read More Read Less
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      Full of patronizing, poorly structured arguments, Expelled is a cynical political stunt in the guise of a documentary.

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      Nell Minow Movie Mom Rated: D Feb 18, 2012 Full Review Drew Toal Time Out Rated: 1/5 Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times This film is cheerfully ignorant, manipulative, slanted, cherry-picks quotations, draws unwarranted conclusions, makes outrageous juxtapositions, segues between quotes that are not about the same thing, tells bald-faced lies, etc. Dec 4, 2008 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com It's impossible to take it seriously. Rated: 1.0/4.0 Sep 7, 2020 Full Review Brian D. Johnson Maclean's Magazine I won't go into the details of the film's polemic. But one of its problems is that it has a double agenda. Dec 16, 2017 Full Review Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy A the point where the film starts exploiting the Holocaust to score cheap shots.. there's no laughter left, only pure, unbridled disgust. Rated: 1/10 Dec 4, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Augustine J I had to watch this for a class. The amount of interviews with some pretty important people is impressive but Stein does a lot to bring the documentary down. Maybe with a different host this could have been something decent, but Ben Stein is just not it. Stein also just goes completely off the rails and tries to basically call all evolutionists Nazis. Yeah, it's not great. Please have more respect for your time and watch literally anything else. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 04/25/24 Full Review Alex J 🫵👎🏿 no me gusta the thing Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/01/23 Full Review Peter A film that does nothing more but try to completely discredit the idea of "creation" from the perspective of evolution and science. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/17/23 Full Review Debi Westerman D It explored the reason why the idea of intelligent design is not permitted to be openly discussed in the scientific and academic communities and what happens when someone insists on discussing it anyway. The film does not attempt to teach that the biblical account of creation is accurate, it only introduces that there is evidence of intelligent design all around us that contradicts evolution by natural selection. It is fascinating and disturbing to watch. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/11/23 Full Review R M First off there are some misconceptions about this movie. It's widely misrepresented to be a film that aims to discredit evolution and prove intelligent design. Now it does indeed poke some holes at the credibility of the theory of evolution, but it doesn't go far enough as to definitively prove it right or wrong. Instead the real content and message of this film is two-fold. One: how there is currently discrimination and deliberate acts of censorship within the scientific community to cover up anyone proposing alternative theories to evolution, whether they be religious or secular based. Stein is trying to argue that in a society based upon freedom of thought and expression and allowing individuals to make up their own mind, shouldn't we be allowed to hear all theories out there and decide for ourselves what sounds right and what doesn't. But the current powers that be in academe are denying all of us this right. Second: this film exposes the dark side of the theory of evolution in how its logical end always leads to the dehumanizing of individuals deemed undesirable by the mainstream of society and eventual genocide of said individuals. Cause after all, if human beings are just a clump of cells, no more significant or important than the clump of cells that make up the moss on the tree, then what's the matter with killing a few to create a better humanity. And that logic ladies and gentlemen is how the Holocaust was born. Therefore Stein makes the grim warning that we must be careful keep a watchful eye on those who believe and disseminate this evolution dogma before they cause the next major dark genocide. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/01/23 Full Review Archives o Excellent, finally someone put evolution and Richard Dawkins in it place, in the recycle bin. Well done ! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/28/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Author, actor and political commentator Ben Stein poses the argument that intelligent design and evolution are both valid scientific explanations for the development of life on earth, and that institutions that don't embrace both views are guilty of stifling academic freedom. Stein makes his case through film clips, interviews with creationists and scientists and his own acerbic observations, including the opinion that Darwin's theory of evolution is partially responsible for the Holocaust.
      Director
      Nathan Frankowski
      Screenwriter
      Kevin Miller, Ben Stein
      Distributor
      Premise
      Production Co
      Rampart Films
      Rating
      PG (Thematic Material|Some Disturbing Images|Brief Smoking)
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Apr 18, 2008, Wide
      Release Date (DVD)
      Jan 1, 2012
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $7.5M
      Runtime
      1h 30m