The Red Pill

2016

1h 57m

Documentary

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29%

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7 Reviews

92%

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1,000+ Ratings

Filmmaker Cassie Jaye's journey following the men's rights movement.

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John DeFore

Hollywood Reporter

It demonstrates enough sincerity and openness to challenging ideas - letting representatives of this problematic movement make their case clearly and convincingly - that one wishes it were able to look at multiple sides of this debate at the same time.

Jul 12, 2017

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Katie Walsh

Los Angeles Times

The Red Pill (the title is a reference to The Matrix) only exacerbates [the] divide with its uncritical, lopsided presentation and inability to craft a compelling argument regarding a topic this controversial.

Jul 11, 2017

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Alan Scherstuhl

Village Voice

There's no doubt that men do sometimes do suffer mistreatment from the courts or from the women in their lives. What the film and the movement fail to demonstrate is any kind of systemic cause.

Oct 4, 2016

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Barbara Shulgasser

Common Sense Media

Unbalanced docu about men's rights movement.

Rated: 1/5

Mar 1, 2019

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Luke Buckmaster

The Daily Review/Crikey

A wretched, morally bankrupt documentary.

Jun 24, 2017

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Simon Foster

Screen-Space

Cassie Jaye's men, and by association the filmmaker herself, are not serving a greater good or inspiring discourse, but instead fuelling a social divide and dishonouring their respective genders.

Rated: 1.5/5

Dec 6, 2016

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Simon O

It's a great story, well-told. Cassie Jay comes over as an unusually honest person who manages (not easily but she does) to overcome her very deeply-held prejudices and to, eventually, really listen to people who are telling her things that she absolutely doesn't want to hear. There are very few people honest enough to make the journey that she makes. It is greatly to her credit that she does. And the way she then gets treated as an 'apostate' is shocking.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/07/24

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Julie J

Brilliant. What a wonderful balanced female film maker. Take the red pill, not the green, ladies.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/18/24

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Doug B

I appreciate the open minded approach, backed up with fact-checking. Definitely worth watching.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

04/08/24

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Brendon E

A very well made documentary which I'm not convinced any of the critics actually watched given their low ratings.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/24

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Paolino P

I had no doubt this movie would be disliked by journos. Badge of honor.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/24/24

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Alban K

A needed perspective in a dividing society

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/30/23

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Cassie Jaye's journey following the men's rights movement.

Director: Cassie Jaye
Producer: Cassie Jaye, Nena Jaye, Anna Laclergue
Production Co: Jaye Bird Productions
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 7, 2017
Runtime: 1h 57m

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