Critic Reviews

• Daniel M. Gold, New York Times

  Really a well-made dispatch from a long war.

• Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

  Thurman presents a largely even-handed recounting, wisely letting folks - and events - speak for themselves.

• Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

  Of all the scary movies you may see this month, none will be more chilling than Scott Thurman's documentary about the Texas State Board of Education.

• Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

  An alarming, hilarious documentary ...

• Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

  Such a feature-length bludgeoning, even in the service of basic social and scientific literacy, is truly discomfiting.

• Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News

  Offers a balanced view of the fight over science and U.S. history standards for Texas schools, but lacks the punch it might have achieved with a stronger point of view.

• Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle

  Due to redistricting, every position on the Texas State Board of Education is up for election on the November 2012 ballot. See The Revisionaries and become better informed about the subject, and then remember to cast your vote.

• Chuck Bowen, Slant Magazine

  Scott Thurman captures not only the fear and anti-intellectual resentment and insecurity that govern the dictations of the far right, but also the rampant unchecked egotism.

• Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion

  At once an unsettling documentary and an enlightening one.

• Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com

  This frontline skirmish in the culture wars [over school textbooks] is the subject of Scott Thurman's engrossing documentary ... It's a symbolic fight of our times, making [the film] a compelling and involving work.

• Kimberly Gadette, Doddle

  This doc's look at the avid Texas State Board of Education (led by a smalltown dentist), invested in rewriting school textbooks in order to push ultra-right wing agendas, is a disturbing must-see.

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